I just went to the Mesa Air web site and I found this on the front page and started laughing...

So if you’re looking for great, friendly service or you’re keen to work in a fun, professional environment with the best in the business, we’d love to welcome you to Mesa, ATW Regional Airline of the Year 2005.

Just another example of marketing/hr departments trying to attract the blind and ignorant. The best part is if you ask those at Mesa if they truly believe what they are saying, I bet you'd get a great big "HELL NO!!!!!!!!!!"

Hotel is provided - double occupancy, just like several other regionals.

You get on the payroll after 2 weeks. Ex/ hired on 7/13, first check (depending on how you hit it) by the end of the month. That's how it worked for me, and has been working.

Not true. MESA does pay you from the very start not much though. If I remember from some recent students the hotel accomodations are also paid for and you do have seperate rooms. Some students stay in four bed room housing at ASU. Also even if the training takes one 3 to 5 mos to complete you do get paid on time.

Best wishes.

OK, well that's good to know. My friend went through training back in August of 06 and had to pay for his hotel for the first few weeks.

It's sad that companies expect a professional to work for free or for pathetic wages (SKW as well as every other airline including most all Legacies, Nationals & Majors) until their trained or partially trained. I don't know of many other industries that do this. It, as well as many other things, is downright criminal and disrespectfull.

"Is it true they make you pay for your own hotel during training and its' shared?"

Trainees are provided a single-occupancy hotel room, or a single-ocupancy room in a 3 or 4 bedroom, 2 bath house. Trainees are paid 70 hours per month at the year 1 CRJ FO rate.

Bruce Morey
PHX DHC8 FO

I ran into some Mesa FO(ols) a while ago that did their initial sim training here at FlightSafety in CVG and they told me they had to pay for their own hotel while staying here in CVG.

Yes, you are correct, for awhile they did have to provide their own housing while going through training. Today, as the venerable Bruce Morey has stated, all newhire FOs are provided housing over at Willie Gateway. It is better than nothing and the accomodations there are plush compared to the luxurious Del Rio in Mesa...w/ fine dining/beverages provided from Groggys across the street.

I'd just go to Mesa and go through training so I could be near ASU girls:p

The willy housing is inner-city project quality...it's better than the Del Rio only because the Del Rio is in the third-world slum league. :rolleyes: