(Every airline) except Allegiant. :-)

Thank you for the tutorial. I appreciate you
and your teams efforts on our behalf.

I wish we had more 28 hour 4-days (like some of our competition) and fewer two leg days in the middle. I would like to have a 12 day working month (and 18 days off per month) like some of my friends at other regionals.

My biggest complaint about flying at Mesa deal with its inept ability for the training department to get pilots to the line, and what that inept ability does to the QOL for line pilots.

 

28hr 4 day lol in DFW most of ours are 19. Maybe the old guys get 20 or 22

 

I picked up an entire 28 hour 4-day at 300% the month before last after getting min credit. I struggle to remember the last 4-day that I received in my bid that was less than 20 hours.

I think some of this is how AA views it’s non-wholly owned regionals and what type of flying it gives us versus Envoy.

 

Envoy will tell you the same but in reverse.

 

Says the pilot who likes to lick the boots of his bosses.

Apparently, we can now add Mesa's MEC to that list.

So what exactly do you appreciate? The wage disparity? How about the FO starting pay that actually DECREASES during the life of the contract? The disproportionately-high cost of mediocre medical and dental insurance? The consistently unproductive pairings?

And then there's reserve. Base assisting on a random basis? Airport standby on a regular basis?

Oh, here's one . . . the MEC is suing Mesa in federal court for paying bonuses to new-hire pilots without negotiating said bonuses with ALPA first, while simultaneously taking union 'dues' out of these same bonuses when they're paid to a pilot.

I could go on and on. The company is holding all the cards. The pilots are begging for scraps. The 'union' is taking 'protection' money from our paychecks - ostensibly to 'protect' us from all this.

Except they're not.

What a deal, huh?

 

That's fine, but what's wrong with sticking to no more than 3 legs on your final day when you're tired and want get home?

 

Obviously, you don’t know JO. He doesn’t wear boots. I enjoy being home based in IAH and being able to upgrade in 2 years. I enjoy flying the Ejet. I like my job and the flying assigned.

Except for the lawsuit, which the MEC lost, complaints like that exist at every regional. My buddy at SKW complains he hasn’t flown in 6 months and has to get current in the SIM. And, SKW pays $2 per hour for FO’s, has better insurance, but base assist and don’t have block or better. No 300%. At all regionals, management holds the cards - just look to the complaints at other regionals.

I routinely refer pilots to check out other regionals. If I was doing it over, I might have gone to COMPASS. Why haven’t you moved on if you hate it here that much? Envoy is taking FO’s with 950 hours 121 time into their street captain program, paying them $45k signing bonus, putting them on the 145 in LGA.

 

Isn’t that a bid option?

 

Of course, but if they have more and more crappy trips, and if your seniority isn't the best, odds are that you will get stuck with some despite what you bid!

 

Yeah, it takes a long time to get to a point as a CA at Mesa where one can stop complaining about the schedule they get. And, with Mesa’s contract on bidding as a CA from aircraft to aircraft, it makes life as a CA on the CRJ pretty crappy because of all the senior CA’s on the CRJ.