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.

 

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].

 

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.

 

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.

 

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.

 

I heard today that newhire flight attendants now get something like a $125 per month crashpad allowance. Guess the company got tired of all the crew room camping going on.

 

What does a Mesa camp site look like?

 

I'm disappointed all of you guys claim to have the inside track and know people but I come on here everyday expecting to see the leaked TA and nothing. Lol

 

We're all getting a fat raise so we can party like rock stars, and all the new FAs are going to resemble Kate Upton

Trust me bro...

 

Why is it such a big secret? Lets see it. Bullet points at least.