Mesa Contract
 

Does anyone that has quit MAG no how the contract works. I signed a promisary note but it doesnt mention when it starts. Does it take affect after the type or IOE.

Did you read the contract before signing? I would imagine it would be in there somewhere...

PS: You need to check your spelling!

I don't think the contract specifies in detail, it says something like "after completion of training"...which has always been interpreted as IOE, since that is the final phase of training. I don't think even mesa would try to argue that one.

After your type ride.

Yup, date of checkride.

wouldnt SOE be training too?

I'm sorry, I'm new and only have flown 121 for 11 years...SOE?

sorry, i dont know if this is an AQP only thing or not, but Supervised Operational Experience, where you fly as an FO with a training capt. for a certain number of legs before you go out on the line...

I must be getting old. It was always IOE to me...

IOE(initial operational experience) to the rest of the world

Yes, it is training. But, the language in the contract states the date of the initial checkride as the time when the 12 months begins.

So if you quit before your checkride then you owe nothing, if you "fail" to pass IOE you pay nothing.....

The Mesa contract does start at check ride not date of hire for payback proration....blows but it is what it is...thank goodness I got off that rollercoaster last week.

The contract starts the day you pass your first PC. I know it used to be when finished with IOE, but if you would have been listening during ground school when the head of ground training handed out the contract and explained it, you would have heard " it starts the day you pass your first PC." Of course if you were to go out and not be able to finish IOE and resigned then you would owe nothing. Or maybe you just have a medical problem that would prevent you from flying for awhile that might be solved after you let the company know you could no longer exercise the privelages of that 1st class medical and would like to pursue another job where a 1st class medical is not required. There is always a way out for those resourceful enough to find it. Just remember that it is all in what the paperwork says not what was said.