Mesa
#7632
Does anyone happen to know if Mesa's current contract is the one easily found on the MAG ALPA site? It's dated effective December 2008 and amendable 2010. That sounds out of date to me.
I'm curious about what happens to captains who upgrade "early" due to the lack of FO's with 1,000hrs. Do such pilots get captain pay? Are they pushed back to FO once enough upgrades occur senior to them? Stuff like that.
I'm curious about what happens to captains who upgrade "early" due to the lack of FO's with 1,000hrs. Do such pilots get captain pay? Are they pushed back to FO once enough upgrades occur senior to them? Stuff like that.
#7633
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I think Mesa is having a hard time keeping up with the additional flying do to available sim time. Several flights cancelled this week do to lack of crews on the E-jet. Junior assignments are rampant on the captain side as well. A lot of new crew-trac peeps not making it any easier. A couple of captains have been JA'd in the right seat with available FO reserves. Does not make sense.
#7634
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Does anyone happen to know if Mesa's current contract is the one easily found on the MAG ALPA site? It's dated effective December 2008 and amendable 2010. That sounds out of date to me.
I'm curious about what happens to captains who upgrade "early" due to the lack of FO's with 1,000hrs. Do such pilots get captain pay? Are they pushed back to FO once enough upgrades occur senior to them? Stuff like that.
I'm curious about what happens to captains who upgrade "early" due to the lack of FO's with 1,000hrs. Do such pilots get captain pay? Are they pushed back to FO once enough upgrades occur senior to them? Stuff like that.
#7635
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Does anyone happen to know if Mesa's current contract is the one easily found on the MAG ALPA site? It's dated effective December 2008 and amendable 2010. That sounds out of date to me.
I'm curious about what happens to captains who upgrade "early" due to the lack of FO's with 1,000hrs. Do such pilots get captain pay? Are they pushed back to FO once enough upgrades occur senior to them? Stuff like that.
I'm curious about what happens to captains who upgrade "early" due to the lack of FO's with 1,000hrs. Do such pilots get captain pay? Are they pushed back to FO once enough upgrades occur senior to them? Stuff like that.
2) If you upgrade early you'll most definitely be on CA pay. You'll still be on probation your first year, but you'll bid and be paid as a CA.
3) The only way you would be bumped back to FO would be if there were a displacement (base downsizing/closure) or loss of flying, and the company ran a bid for which you could not hold CA in any base.
4) If FOs junior to you later bid CA, they of course still go above you on the Captain roster for monthly bidding/vacation bidding/etc.
I wouldn't worry about getting bumped back to FO for the forseeable future. With attrition and new airplanes still arriving, you should upgrade fast and stay in the left seat for as long as you want to be here...you might end up getting pushed down onto reserve for a bit by FOs senior to you coming over to the left seat, but you should keep your left seat.
#7636
Up to 60 FO reserve lines in Phoenix this month. Sounds like there will be a lot of base assisting in DFW, but this will be great for SAP. Summer flying should bring back some lines though.
#7637
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I can see PHX flying increasing in the summer, but if LAX flying continues to decrease, I don't know that the total lines will go up at all. Hope that's not the case though.
#7638
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#7639
1) Yes that contract is the current one. It is common for regional managements to drag negotiations out for a decade or so, because the RLA/NMB is a broken system that places zero pressure on airlines to renew decades-old contracts. There have been many, many LOAs/MOUs/clarifications regarding sections of that contract over the years--for example the commuter clause is much more lenient than the original one in the original CBA language. Maybe e-mail the association and ask for the copy that has all the interpretations/rulings/LOAs/MOUs attached.
2) If you upgrade early you'll most definitely be on CA pay. You'll still be on probation your first year, but you'll bid and be paid as a CA.
3) The only way you would be bumped back to FO would be if there were a displacement (base downsizing/closure) or loss of flying, and the company ran a bid for which you could not hold CA in any base.
4) If FOs junior to you later bid CA, they of course still go above you on the Captain roster for monthly bidding/vacation bidding/etc.
I wouldn't worry about getting bumped back to FO for the forseeable future. With attrition and new airplanes still arriving, you should upgrade fast and stay in the left seat for as long as you want to be here...you might end up getting pushed down onto reserve for a bit by FOs senior to you coming over to the left seat, but you should keep your left seat.
2) If you upgrade early you'll most definitely be on CA pay. You'll still be on probation your first year, but you'll bid and be paid as a CA.
3) The only way you would be bumped back to FO would be if there were a displacement (base downsizing/closure) or loss of flying, and the company ran a bid for which you could not hold CA in any base.
4) If FOs junior to you later bid CA, they of course still go above you on the Captain roster for monthly bidding/vacation bidding/etc.
I wouldn't worry about getting bumped back to FO for the forseeable future. With attrition and new airplanes still arriving, you should upgrade fast and stay in the left seat for as long as you want to be here...you might end up getting pushed down onto reserve for a bit by FOs senior to you coming over to the left seat, but you should keep your left seat.
#7640
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Is it pretty safe to say that everyone who wants DFW is getting it right out of class at this point? With all the open flying in DFW this month it's hard to imagine that wouldn't be the case, but I guess you never know.
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