No company call lately. Is there one coming up? I got questions to aks.

 

Company call jan 13. 1pm az time.

 

Thanks


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New guy question...
Since the last proposed contract was thankfully a NoGo, how long does Mesa plan on waiting before trying to come back to the pilot group with a better offer? I'm just assuming here, but aren't the new hire classes drying up? Being that 22 per hr is no longer the standard for the regionals, JO has to have a plan by now.

 

Not for a while classes are full for now

 

Well our negotiating committee and most of the MEC all resigned their positions after the TA failed. Considering the negotiators have to be trained and the MEC has to collect all the data on why the TA failed and come up with a game plan for the next round of negotiations, I doubt they are ready to go back to the table with the Company just yet. The company would much rather keep us on the current contract for as long as they can so you won't find them badgering the union for a new contract in a hurry.

 

You live 20 minutes from DFW but you're thinking of going to IAH? DFW is the more junior CA base. And even if you had to wait six extra months, DFW seems like a no-brainer.

 

Why the "OBAMACARE" bashing? (Other than the obvious, that is.) I had a plan I bought through Healthcare.gov while I was at Mesa, and it was awesome. Top health insurer in my state. Much better insurance than I'm now getting (for the same out of pocket cost) at SkyWest.

What makes you think you'll upgrade quicker on the ERJ? Most of the FOs flying it came here with 121 time, they'll upgrade much sooner than you. Hate to break the bad news to you but if you didn't bring a bunch of 121 time with you or were hired in mid-2014 or earlier, there will be no quick upgrade for you.

 

We'll send back planes before we raise payrates imho--this isn't a wholly-owned cost center type operation.

If we can't staff the feed at existing profit margins/rates, we will send it back and say "sorry can't staff it at that rate." Whether mainline comes back to us with a flow or CPA rate increase has absolutely nothing to do with ALPA at all.

Just giving you cold hard facts...can ALPA turn the screws on the company versus what they're doing now? Sure--sure they can. But can they force an increase in payrates, or a comprehensively-better/satisfactory CBA? Nah--probably not.

Mesa's key benefit at the moment is that our flight ops management doesn't try to micromanage us like every other regional--HR has less power than our chief pilots, and that's the main reason I like working here...if that ever changes and we turn into some Republic/Endeavor/XJet management culture where HR micromanages the daily life of pilots, then yeah--people are going to leave.

Personally, I think Mesa is worth a few bucks less per hour on the payscale precisely because management leaves us the heck alone about minor things like sick calls. At present, if your flights go out on time and you aren't breaking things, they leave you the heck alone--which is exactly how it should be. If that ever changes, a handful of people will put their "next job" plans in motion--hopefully the continuing policy of "hands-off" management will continue, for the sake of anyone who works here!

 

I came here with 2500 hours of turbine 121 time in an EMB-145 (Which is also a consideration since I'm really familiar with the Embraer way of designing stuff) I have multiple captain recs, so I'm all set to go. Now it's just a waiting game.

On a personal note, you were the FO on my fam ride. We did PHX to OAK. Thanks for showing me around the CRJ on the preflight.

How's Skywest?