Mesa 3.0
08-23-2016 | 09:03 AM
#401
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Everyone's goals are different my friend. SWA/FDX don't happen to be mine.
08-23-2016 | 11:31 AM
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You all think it is so easy to move on... All the LCC's can afford to only pick from the creme of the crop from the regionals. I think everyone should be trying for an LCC, just don't expect it to be easy.
08-23-2016 | 12:52 PM
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Creme of the crop? Spirit, Allegiant, Jet blue, and Frontier are all hiring anybody that applys. We lost two of Mesa's top 10 hated Capts to spirit with multiple recent training failures. My last Fo has an interview at spirit and he doesn't even have 1k 121 sic. Last time I checked pilots with recent training failures and background check gremlins are not the regional creme of the crop.
08-23-2016 | 12:56 PM
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Creme of the crop? Spirit, Allegiant, Jet blue, and Frontier are all hiring anybody that applys. We lost two of Mesa's top 10 hated Capts to spirit with multiple recent training failures. My last Fo has an interview at spirit and he doesn't even have 1k 121 sic. Last time I checked pilots with recent training failures and background check gremlins are not the regional creme of the crop.
08-23-2016 | 01:31 PM
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Frontier and Allegiant will. Frontier's booth at OBAP was practically empty. Who wants a 24 month training agreement?
08-23-2016 | 01:59 PM
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Or the most antiquated pay scale of any major?
As far as waiting to accrue 1000 TPIC, I think that's a perfectly reasonable course of action. Historically this has been one of the biggest prerequisites to being competitive for a career airline. The moment the economy goes South, anyone who skipped out early might wish they hadn't. But none of us will ever know if we made the right decisions until retirement. And sometimes not until after.
As far as waiting to accrue 1000 TPIC, I think that's a perfectly reasonable course of action. Historically this has been one of the biggest prerequisites to being competitive for a career airline. The moment the economy goes South, anyone who skipped out early might wish they hadn't. But none of us will ever know if we made the right decisions until retirement. And sometimes not until after.
08-23-2016 | 03:18 PM
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Frontier and Spirit didn't, that last DFW job fair? Only know of one person getting an interview at Spirit, and one at Frontier. Allegiants new pay scale puts them ahead of South West if you take into consideration the quicker upgrade. To say that they are more picky now would be an understatement. I am done spending money and days off to go to a job fair to interview for an interview
08-23-2016 | 03:41 PM
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Creme of the crop? Spirit, Allegiant, Jet blue, and Frontier are all hiring anybody that applys. We lost two of Mesa's top 10 hated Capts to spirit with multiple recent training failures. My last Fo has an interview at spirit and he doesn't even have 1k 121 sic. Last time I checked pilots with recent training failures and background check gremlins are not the regional creme of the crop.250 new hires in 2016
370 projected for 2017
(I think 2015): 6713 apps / 309 hired / less than 5%
If it were that easy to get on, there wouldn't be ANY regional pilots. everyone in my class was mil and/or regional captains with impressive resumes. I don't know about spirit or frontier, but I imagine they are in a similar boat. If it's so easy, why are you still at the worst regional in probably the world?
08-23-2016 | 05:44 PM
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^^^spot on... I know Frontier hired just 1 out of 5 of the Mesa guys I wrote letters of rec for. They all had lots of PIC and were not going to jump ship elsewhere yet they still were turned down. It takes a job fair or letter of rec to get the interview, then and only then does Frontier hire only about 30 percent of who they actually interview. Much tougher then you think to get hired here even with the low starting pay.
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