What do you mean with "one of the worst." Is it possible to be equally bad, or worst than that place?

It is listed as a Red Lion Inn on Flica, the pictures on Google still show it as a Red Roof, but it actually is a Travelodge... That place hit the ball out of the park remarkably: Rude staff, pungent smell, inoperable AC, countless stains of all kinds (a wide variety of bodily fluids from diferent sources, dry lube, water, food, etc...) everywhere you look, the rooms look like have not been cleaned in years - literally, everything is of the worst quality you can imagine, everything is rundown, roach in the room, hair and stains in the bed sheets, holes in the towels, stain in the towels, stains in the replacement towels, shady location, the van refused to take us anywhere other than to and from the airport, etc... and all in just one day They just kept impressing me...

 

Hotels are about to get worse. Flight Attendants new TA has them making .17 more per hour than before. This entire company is in a downward spiral.

 

.17 cents. OMG!! That's it, on the road to bankruptcy. There is no pot of gold, and wondering how in the world they are going to pay for that. Also telling all the FA's " very good job, you deserve this"......what an insult.

 

Don't go shouting that around the crew room in DFW. People already probably think you are dumb enough as it is.

 

Hi, can anyone comment on Mesa's reserve policy and what their experience has been while on reserve? Do you have to take a line in the same domicile that you served in reserve? i.e., Is it possible to reserve in PHX and then take an available line in DFW? Just wondering how that works. Thanks.

 

You can only bid for schedules in your assigned base. That being said once you are a lineholder you may be able to pick up open trips in other bases, but you will always bid your monthly schedule in your base.

Reserve pilots get 11 days off per month. They are on duty at least 3 days in a row and no more than 6. There is short call and ready reserve. Short call is a 90 minute callout and comes in 12 hour shifts (4am-4pm or 12pm-12am). Ready reserve usually comes in 8 hour shifts and you have to sit at the airport. You cannot pick up flying on your days off. You cannot pick up open flying while on duty, it has to be assigned to you by the schedulers. You will be flown as a "call me first" reserve pilot until you have 100 hours in the airplane, so you may fly more at the beginning. After that first 100 hours, it all depends. Some days/weeks you will be super busy and fly a lot. Others you will sit around all week and go home without having flown at all.

 

Xdash answered most of it, but I'll add that you can switch your domicile whenever standing bid runs a bid (usually monthly), assuming there are vacancies at the base you want to switch to and assuming your seniority can hold it. But you won't know where the line holder cutoff will be until that month's line bids come out and are awarded. You can estimate where the bottom line holders will be for each domicile based on the previous months awards and use that to adjust your standing bid accordingly.

So you could eventually get PHX based (plan 3-6 months after IOE, sometimes sooner sometimes longer), find out when you would be a line holder in DFW, then switch your standing bid back to DFW when you are senior enough to hold a line there. Once you hold a line you can drop trips in DFW (pending enough reserve coverage) and pick up trips in PHX if that's what you are getting at. But you can't sit reserve in PHX and then grab a line in DFW as a PHX reserve guy. You have to be awarded a new base before you can bid in it. But as a line holder you can pick up open time from another base.

 

Thanks guys. I'm at a point now where I need to start thinking about what regional I would like to fly for. It's really important to me to be based in PHX. So, I'm limited to either Mesa or Skywest right? As a new hire, what are my chances of getting assigned to PHX? And if I'm reading BeatNavy correctly, I would most likely get a line within 3-6 months? That wouldn't be to bad at all.

 

Is it true that Mesa flies a majority of short trips out of DFW?

 

Most junior PHX FO was hired in Aug 2015. Most junior lineholder was hired in Mar 15. So, it looks more like 6 months to hold PHX at all, and about a year to hold a line. But that's looking at it today. What happens in the future could be very different. As far as upgrading goes, you can forget PHX unless you plan to stay at Mesa for 10+ years.