RTFM. Here...I did it for you in the excerpt below. Prefer days off is a lot different than an avoid pairings bid. You should take your own advice and talk to the Xan, or better yet, read the manual for yourself. Keep putting out misinformation. The more people who don't know how PBS works the better my awards are.

"Avoid Pairings bid preferences identify the things you don’t want to do, the unwanted pairings or pairing criteria, for the current bid period. Avoid Pairings bid preferences include most of the same options as Award Pairings bid preferences, so you can identify types of layovers, stations, duty length, etc., that you don’t like. Avoid Pairings bid preferences exclude pairings from consideration. Avoid Pairings bid preferences affect any Award Pairings bid preferences that follow them in your bid. For example, if you add the bid preference Avoid Pairings If Average Daily Credit< 006:00, all pairings with an average daily credit that is less than six hours are removed from consideration once the PBS Scheduler reaches that bid preference, even if they meet the rest of the criteria for an Award Pairings bid preference that appears after the Avoid Pairings bid preference."

 

Mesa is severely cash flow negative. I wouldn't be surprise to hear they can't make payroll or major debt payments.

Training costs through the roof- hotels are at an all time low with conditions.

 

Can't say that, with our Sheraton Four Points contract, hotels are decent out of DFW. Far better than what we had out of CLT.

 

Okay- two hotels out of the 100's. Have you been to AMA - LBB- ICT- CID- CLT-DSM-JAN..... I could go on.

 

Most likely this is not true.

You dont see any cost savings measures being taken in training, with tons of extra sim time and rechecks being offered. Hotels are still single occupancy.

We are the lowest paid pilots in the industry with Mesa contributing the lowest to our benefit package. The cost structure here is prime for profit.

Most likely, the reason we are not building a hanger is because the rumors of us moving to PHX maybe true.

 

The MEC met in PHX this week. Why don't you call your reps and they can explain Mesa is in a worse position cash wise than they were 1 year ago.

 

What is your source, or are you just perpetuating internet rumors? "Most likely" you don't know what you are talking about.

Our contract (have you ever read it?) says we will have single occupancy hotels. They can't just change it on a whim to save money. Also, the number one threat to the Mesa house of cards crumbling is no one filling the right seat. This is why they will put money into new hires and not deter new hires from coming, which double occupancy certainly would do, even if they were allowed to do it.

The cost structure is not prime for profit. What is your assertion based on? Have you seen Mesa's financials? Do you know what their debts/interest rates are? Have you looked at their balance sheet? Labor costs are only a fraction of what Mesa has to pay.

"Tons of extra sim time" with the assumption that eventually he/she will make it is cheaper than recruiting another new hire and giving him 10 sims (along with all the other sunk costs into the extra sim new hire). And every warm body counts. Someone who struggles in sims and barely makes it will likely be at Mesa a while anyway and might be a better long term investment.

Some of these rumors and statements by internet COOs/CFOs are getting painful to read. Also, not that it is relevant, but you hang clothes on a hanger, and you put an airplane in a hangar.

 

Nothing that a new line of credit can't take care of.

 

So is Skywest aware of what they just hired? 4 regional airlines, multiple ASAP reports + No Fly Lists and more carpet dances in a year than most would have in 2 lifetimes.

 

From my sources Mesa is -40m for cash flow in 2017.