What? Mesa's 900's just like everyone els. What ever hppd about PSA maybe getting Horizons CRJ's.

 

The horizon 700's are still at horizon I beleive. They will be sold back to Bombardie then to the next company. I know PSA is not the only company whose pilots are claiming they are going to them.

 

Im sure we will find out soon. Horizon is going to start phasing them out starting in the spring. All gone by the end of 2009.

 

No, thats why we dont have them. The company tried getting us to fly them for 50 seat rates and it was voted down thankfully.

 

I guess that makes sense considering that Mainline cant even offer an appropriate payscale for the 190 .

What a bunch of crapola

 

It's not Doom and Gloom...its just reality. People talk about how bad the schedules are getting, how bad the hotels are getting...
Thing is, they have been this way all along. The only way to get a better quality of life is to find another airline to work for. The union, chief pilots all have good intentions but our management doesn't care. They are happy making decent money in Ohio and wouldn't do a damm thing to change it. If PSA gets more airplanes or better routes or better schedules it will be because it was handed to our management. They work their 9-5 m-f and that is all. No extra effort. Our scheduling dept is reactive, our contract allows the inefficiencies to go on, our dispatch is totally clueless. (OK not all but some...K.H.?) Until Doug Parker and his management group take some responsibility for the PSA management we are stuck in a rut.

 

I think the only way PSA is going to see more flying any time soon is if Mesa goes under. Dont they have like 90 Million to pay with only 40 Million in assets, and its due in January?

 

Hmm .. I have heard a couple rumblings about "lots of things happening (at PSA) after the first of the year" and "all very good .. requiring the hiring of many more people". This is all in the operations dept, but ... who knows.

HEY .. easy there. I do have to agree, some people (past and present ... A.Q. if you remember him, damn that guy was dumber than a bag of hammers ...) I wonder how they have made it this far in life. A lot of the problem is we have a lot of new people, who seem completely unable to think for themselves. Our most senior guy has been there 8 years I think, then 4, then 1.5, .... Turnover is ridiculous, something like 85 - 90%. Some of us DO give a damn about our work and try to make life easier on you guys. We dont have you swap a/c because we are bored, for instance, and the first thing I look at in the morning is if I can do away with a swap here or there.

Besides, be nice to us, when you send an ACARS for crew meals they come to me first.

If that much. Ever try to get into the corp office at 2pm on a Fri? You'd have better luck getting into Fort Knox. You're right, things will never change here until certain people leave.

 

Anything to back this up or just rumors floating about? Been a lot of noise about more furloughs, not more hiring.

 

Rumors of more flying are probably around due to the whole Mesa thing going on. If Mesa goes BK then Airways is going to have to find someone to fill all of those flights out of CLT and PHX that Mesa runs. Hopefully there is more to the rumor than just this.