tinman1

You mean a decent hotel located in a desirable area within walking distance to downtown?

Surely you can't be serious

Blackwing

Really hoping the TA restores pay for deadhead legs dropped at the beginning or end of a trip.

ScottyDo

"But it's all about helping out with the bottom line!" Haha everyone is more than happy to help out with that it seems, yet they ***** about having to pay a dollar a month for KCM.

Blackwing

Wait, whut?

milehighskyline

Good now we all can just have an orgy every day of every trip and get paid for it. Classic and all original Mesa

flapshalfspeed

If "the fire door slamming and waking you up" resulted in you not getting 8 hours of consecutive rest, and you still flew the next day, then you've violated 117 rules and need to file an ASAP report.

"Sometimes hotels are noisy" = the noisy hotels should fix the problem or be eliminated from our hotel list.

The Doubletree TUL instituted curfew hours for the many groups of junior high/high school sports teams staying there this summer--specifically because of the "lot of pilots & FAs" who take these matters seriously and talk to hotel managers and the company until they fix the problem. That Doubletree is a great hotel--they listened to my suggestion and implemented it. Not hard--just have a spine and tell people what you require.

I don't know if you're a Captain or not, or how much 121 experience you have, but at some point in this career you have to realize this is not the military--you are not duty-bound to sacrifice your body/rest for the company, or to go above & beyond and volunteer to fly/etc..

A lot of people confuse the operational similarities of military service and 121 flying, and end up with a mindset that they need to just buck up and get the job done. All Airlines/Crew Schedulers know this, and take advantage of it when they smell it, because it lets them order you around like an obedient soldier...but this is not the military--you are not duty-bound to do anything outside the contract or regs. None of your Mesa bretheren are going to die if you reject a hotel or adjust your showtimes after a noisy/crappy hotel compromised your rest. No American lives will be lost if your MSY turn is delayed 38 minutes tomorrow morning.

Your post makes me think you have those two completely separate levels of obligation/moral duty mixed up. Maybe I'm wrong.

milehighskyline

FYI I am opening a new crash pad in DFW. Will be cheapest one in the area. Clean Comfortable, and safe place to stay. Should be open sometime between August 15 and September 1st mesa people get a discount. Email me at [email protected].

flapshalfspeed

ALPA should push the company to account for all savings from voluntarily cancelled hotel rooms, and to have those cost savings put back into the hotel budget to get better hotels for the rest of us.

milehighskyline

Well I am not worried about better hotels when I am sitting in my hotel room now eating fig bars, kettle chips, and white cheddar popcorn for dinner because i can't afford but one meal a day. And i am not the only one.

ScottyDo

I think that would be very fair. Perhaps someone further up the totem pole has thought of this already. But who are we kidding? Probably not lol.