Pilot84

Im very interested to see what tuesday brings. I will let you know how it goes and if I get the gig.

texaspilot76

There are other airlines that will hire you with a pulse. Stay away from Mesa.

cruiseclimb

I know people say it.. but it's so true.. Taking those jobs encourages poor contracts. You can make as much instructing and be home each night. Patience is worth it in this case.

Pilot84

Like???? The other I tried is piedmont and heard nothing.

andy171773

Can we seriously start a new category for Mesa. I'm real tired of hearing about them.

"Majors"
"Regionals"
"Cargo"
"Garbage Carriers"

berts

dude I am dying right now. you made my morning.

N2rotation

Pilot84, go CFI at ATP or some other school for 6 months then go to a carrier with a good pilot contract.

This would be the best advice you could get. Mesa is a trap that you don't want to be in. I used to fly for Mesa as well and it was the crappiest time of my life. Not lying.

If you do interview ask these questions:
why do you only offer 8 days off a month when other airlines have a min of 12?
why do you have a training contract that you get stuck with ($12,000) and other airlines dont?
why do you operate with more MELs (broken equipment) than any other airline?
why do you cancel pilot vacations so that pilots can't go to disney with their family?

the answer will be some BS, but the real answer to these questions is that 'we are a garbage company that treats our employees really bad and they are mostly all miserable'.

-LAMA (life after mesa airlines)

BankAngle09

You'll have no problems, IF, you can stay awake up front

AirWillie

Another 200 hour pilot who thinks the airlines owe it to hire him. It's not that easy, you're just another comm rated guy and there are many of you out there. You need to get some kind of experience like CFI or any other pro flying. At 200 hours you are just setting up yourself for a pt121 training failure. By the way don't bother, Mesa doesn't hire below their mins. The only way you can get around the 500/100 multi is if you have advenced CRJ training. Plus they've got a screwed up training and even if you're unfortunate to get hired by them, it's going to take months to actually start flying. In that time you could have build up your time and actually went to a place where you will actually stay for more than 6 months. With all the stuff out there about MESA you'd think people would get a clue, what's it going to take?

JustaRampagent

my friend got hired at mesa with less than the min (290 60) and he's flying already.