Of course ...we have been doing this on a small scale for quite some time at Airmiddy to get things done. The management can't say too much about you having legit maint. problems and they definately give you plenty of those to choose from. Remeber ppl, if it isn't in that MEL its GROUNDED! Thats too bad if we don't have maint at that stop

 

My friend is planning to go to Mesa =( I tried to talk him out of it...no luck

 

One guy I knew turned down Expressjet for Mesa because Mesa was a better commute.

 

Oh my gosh guys, why did you sign that shty contract? 60 mins show time, the pay, the work rulez..and a training contract? I just don't understand!!!!

 

Probably because they don't know any better, like me =) Good thing I have all you wonderful (yet cynical) people to teach me the ways.

 

BURN IT DOWN.

Mesa is paying pilots $500 to help get other pilots in there. Also- they are paying for the hotel during training now... whoopdedoo!!!

AVOID THIS PLACE AT ALL COSTS. Supply and demand will be key for their CBA negotiations starting in September... and it is already starting to hurt.

ALPA national needs to help fix one of the worst ALPA contracts in history.

 

With the staggering (and that's an understatement) attrition rate going on at Mesa right now, there may not be any pilots around to even need a new contract. Mesa's bleeding, and I'm seriously not sure if there's any tourniquet that will stop it. There's talk of the company planning on cancelling vacations to deal with the lack of pilots, and we're already seeing record levels of JRA's. Couple that with the company punishing us with minimum days off, and horrible schedules, and a lot of folks are just leaving with, or without a job. You can ask any senior pilot there and they'll say that it's the worst now than it's ever been (and that's saying a lot).

Mesa will either cease to exist a year from now, or will be a fraction of itself. And hopefully JO and his gang will be banished from ever working in the airline industry again.

 

Huh?

How would he know which aircraft he's getting?

He could get the B1900, in which case he's at Air Midwest and could be based at any one of 20 bajillion domiciles.

If he gets a training date at PHX, then he could get either the CRJ, ERJ, or the Dash 8.

There's waaaaaay too many unknowns when you accept a job with Mesa. Where will you end up? What aircraft will you get? What will your base be?


If I was your friend, given all this uncertainty with Mesa, I'd go to ExpressJet.

 

And to be fair EFIS COMP MON doesn't know any of that for a fact. People are quitting, but not really in record numbers according to the seniority movement. There's no information to believe that there are a "record" number of JRAs, there are always JRAs, that's how Mesa runs. People like to TALK about vacations getting cancelled, but there is no indication from the company that is true.

It's all rumor - Mesa is no better and no worse than it ever was.

 

Take him out back and beat him.