MagPBS

Time to get back on topic. I'm still looking for someone to provide me with the specific pairings in question. I have looked and I cannot find them within PBS as stated.

frankgh

I think you are asking way too much! Just like a post I saw from some guy looking for an unbiased opinion here on APC! Lol!

backtoregionals

Nothing in the world can compare to Mesa Management.......

calmwinds

On the Ejet, the time for getting your CA bid honored as an FO has dropped from 22 to 21 months from date of hire.

MysteriousMrX

Have their been any captains who've gone from Mesa to a major?
We all know that letter last spring (?) from E.L. spoke the truth: essentially, it doesn't happen.
Why?
Is there really a "Mesa stink" that can only be washed off by going to another regional or a Spirit or Frontier or Atlas, etc?
I'm on the verge of upgrading. I *want* to do the right thing which is to bide your time as FO, upgrade, get your PIC time, and move on. No lateral moves or small step up.
However, I also don't want to be here in 20 years, knowing I painted myself into a corner, and by then it'll be too late (age reason).

I cannot help but think about throwing in an app to Endeavor, or an AA wholly owned, although I think the flow may be fool's gold.
Endeavor captain pay STARTS at what would take me another 10 years to get at Mesa. Plus a guaranteed interview at Delta? Even if that doesn't happen, you at least hear of places like Endeavor and Compass and even GoJet, having people go straight from there to Delta and American and United and even FedEx and UPS. But Mesa?? I've yet to hear of one.

I don't want to have to answer interview questions about why did I leave, etc.. but I also don't want to spend my career as an underpaid lifer......

tinman1

That guy is a real piece of work. When I was still employed there I hurt my arm and took FMLA because I couldn't work the steering tiller on the 175, and he called to harass me about it. I should've filed an ASAP so the FAA could get in on it but I already had a class date somewhere else and just didn't care anymore.

calmwinds

Really? Last month, I flew with a CA who had taken an offer with Southwest. Another CA left for Delta just a few months ago. I have to admit that Spirit is where most are going to.

Get a 4 year degree. Become a line check airman. If your record is clean, then nothing is going to stop your career progression.

MagPBS

AA street hires are non-existent, so they are not a fair comparison. But we have at least 5 that I know of go to Southwest straight from Mesa. One just went to FedEx straight from Mesa. And I know of a few Delta interviews.

If UA’s numbers are correct for next year, expect some to go there direct also.

MysteriousMrX

Very good to hear! I wish Mesa would post a graph on their site (like GoJet and Compass and others) showing where people have gone.

Thx!

Sennant

If they did that it would show that most of our attrition is FO's moving laterally. Not a big selling point when trying to recruit people to come here.