Mesa Pilots
07-29-2007 | 04:45 PM
#31
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From: A Big One
Mesa historic block times are called segment times.
Those segment times are the six month historic average of that leg. If you push out and have to taxi for a four hour tour of LGA and then fly to PHL. You'll only get the 1.0 segment credit and not the five hours it will take you to actually perform the trip.
The Mesa people I know have one goal - fix it or burn it down. They are gathering the kindling now.
JO is setting up the China deal as a whipsaw. He's going to be moving CRJ's to China and establish flying there. Rumor has it that Mesa could lose a codeshare by November. In all honesty, that would probably "right-size" them for what they are currently undertaking.
Either way - Friends don't let friends fly for JO....at least not with this contract.....
I spent 9 years and 9 months at Mesa. The conditions they are currently working under far surpass the shizzit I experienced.
Godspeed to the YV crews and get a great contract...!!!
Those segment times are the six month historic average of that leg. If you push out and have to taxi for a four hour tour of LGA and then fly to PHL. You'll only get the 1.0 segment credit and not the five hours it will take you to actually perform the trip.
The Mesa people I know have one goal - fix it or burn it down. They are gathering the kindling now.
JO is setting up the China deal as a whipsaw. He's going to be moving CRJ's to China and establish flying there. Rumor has it that Mesa could lose a codeshare by November. In all honesty, that would probably "right-size" them for what they are currently undertaking.
Either way - Friends don't let friends fly for JO....at least not with this contract.....
I spent 9 years and 9 months at Mesa. The conditions they are currently working under far surpass the shizzit I experienced.
Godspeed to the YV crews and get a great contract...!!!
07-31-2007 | 11:28 AM
#33
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I have an interesting Mesa story...
I was commuting from STL-ORF through CLT. The CLT-ORF leg i rode up front on a CRJ900 due to no open seats in the back. Both pilots had 4 stripes and I thought to myself that it must be OE or something... cool. It actually turns out that the captain in the right seat was junior manned to the right seat and was even senior to the captain in the left seat... that absolutely blew my mind! Junior manning to the Right seat? Has anyone else heard of this?
I have never personally had a Mesa jumpseater, but welcome aboard!
I was commuting from STL-ORF through CLT. The CLT-ORF leg i rode up front on a CRJ900 due to no open seats in the back. Both pilots had 4 stripes and I thought to myself that it must be OE or something... cool. It actually turns out that the captain in the right seat was junior manned to the right seat and was even senior to the captain in the left seat... that absolutely blew my mind! Junior manning to the Right seat? Has anyone else heard of this?
I have never personally had a Mesa jumpseater, but welcome aboard!
07-31-2007 | 06:36 PM
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From: A Big One
Jump off that high horse before someone else knocks you off of it.
My .02
07-31-2007 | 07:38 PM
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From: RC-3 Seabee. Skipper of the A21 cutter.
07-31-2007 | 07:59 PM
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From: RC-3 Seabee. Skipper of the A21 cutter.
Indeed. I can't count the number of times I've seen go arounds at SNA and LGB, 99% of them airliners. It happens and will happen again. I've been asked to go around a dozen times because of congestion on the pavment.
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