Just got a call from one of my past students and good friend. One of his instructors got a job offer at mesa, he said the interview was one on one, and consisted of one task, to read back an atc clearance! What a joke.

 

I should add his times are 800 and 55ish.

 

How sad, I can't believe people still consider going to that place. It is a death wish with everyone else in the industry. Not that any other regional is much better... but when a union proposes and gets a contract voted through that allows $40 an hour for a year 8-20 turboprop captain doesn't get any respect from me! I'm sorry for you captains that have to fly with the 250 hour wonders that would fly Mesa's airplanes for nothing just to log the time...

 

Do you honestly believe that?

I know it isn't rocket science (getting a job), but for an airline that has such an intense training program for my airframe, that seems a little preposterous.

 

I know a couple of people who went there who I wouldn't fly with. I hope I don't have to in the future. I'd be sorely tempted to stay at the airport that day. They had a very bad reputation and we wouldn't hire them as instructors. You know where they went? Mesa's Pay-to-Fly program. I wouldn't be surprised, just disappointed.

 

so I guess Mesa is running open house where they are hiring guys who don't even have a ME rating. I think the interview went something like this:
"we know all that time as a CIF doing left (and right) hand turns will make you a great FO for our CRJ-900 down to mexico!!!
just call us when you get you ME and we will give you a class date...
O'h...what...you fluncked your ME...thats OK...just call us when you have a white copy...not pink."
AMAZING!!!!

 

It’s true. I would not have believed that they sleep in the plane either, but I flew with a fa that worked for them and said she has done it.

 

It's true, they basically just do a pulse check nowadays. That must really blow for the folks who donated two years of their lives and $90K to attend ornstien's pilot school...just to get the same job that people can get off the street with even FEWER qualifications. Ouch.

 

Mesa Airlines abandons fourteen cities in May, pilot attrition cited as reason.

The winds have shifted and Jonathan Ornstein's "scorched Earth tactics" in Hawaii and across the globe have finally turned back against him. The fire is now burning uncontrollably close to Phoenix.

Visalia, California Airport manager Mario Cifuentes blamed several of Mesa's recent delays on a lack of pilots. Mario Cifuentes says about Mesa, "there weren't a whole lot of pilots available".

With todays announcement of Cedar City, Utah, this makes FOURTEEN cities in the past month Mesa Airlines is abandoning. Nine of the cities being abandoned were announced in the past FOUR DAYS.

Cedar City, Utah

Visalia, California

Merced, California

Ely, Nevada

Moab and Vernal, Utah

Roswell, New Mexico

Alamogordo, New Mexico

Farmington, New Mexico

On May 3rd Mesa announced Air Midwest would terminate service to the cities of DuBois, Franklin/Oil City and Lancaster, Pennsylvania / Hagerstown, Maryland / Greenbrier/White Sulphur Springs/Lewisburg, West Virginia and Athens, Georgia.

The DOT filed an Order Prohibiting Termination of Service and Requesting Proposals.

While every one of these cities is a community with families and businesses that are being affected one way or the other; While every one of these cites has their story with Mesa Airlines; Only one city is Mesa's true Hometown.

Farmington, New Mexico. This would be comparable to Hawaiian pulling out of Honolulu, or united abandoning Chicago.

At one time Air Midwest was the premier regional to be employed by. It is saddening to watch Mesa sacrifice this once proud airline in a vein attempt to solve their spiraling pilot attrition problem.

http://mesalies.blogspot.com/

 

Yeah, all that came out from the union already as well. I know we are planning on closing HOB in the next 30 days and VIS and CDC within 90 days. AHN will be closing by the end of the summer. We haven't hired any new FO's in like 3 months even though we are almost completely out of RSV's in the right seat. I really think they intend to restaff with the base closure's.
Of course Mesa actually managed to hire 90 ppl into the ERJ/CRJ this month....all I can say is look forward to that 3 - 5 year upgrade....just to sit RSV again under one of the worst contracts in the history of aviation.....Oh and on the positive note I didn't get called out today