The context I mean is : they are trying to attract pilots with bonuses, but an airline ticket for overseas travel is too much

It is probably due to no-shows. The regionals have a negotiated rate for positive space travel and they pay big penalties for no-shows. I know of one regional that stopped bringing interviewees to interviews on a certain airline due to no-shows.

That would be a logical explanation,and that would explain their travelpolicies

They only hire F/A's over the phone... or so it would seem.

So you're telling me Delta and virtually every other airline is doing it all wrong?

iFlyRC is trying to self-justify going to Mesa.

65$ hr is my justification.

How's that working out after you subtract the cost of your health insurance?

Yep, by his logic, all airlines should just do away with the stupid formality of actually getting to know a person via an interview before making an offer of employment.

I can't imagine why the majors don't just offer class dates to anybody and everybody. If they make it through training that's all that matters, and therefore they must be good enough. If it's good enough for Mesa, of course it's good enough for every other airline, right ???

iFlyRC, do you have any idea how much it costs to put a new hire through training? How much money does Mesa waste when 40% of their pilots wash out of training? And many more borderline pilots who use twice the sim sessions and two or three times the normal amount of IOE just to finish training. Sounds like Mesa is a class A organization and everyone else should conform to their standards.
What happens when one of these pilots with multiple multiple checkride failures and 80 hours of IOE bends some metal? How is the media and public going to react?
Now I know this does not include every Mesa pilot. They have some very classy and great pilots I am sure, but they sure don't weed out the people who have no business being in the cockpit of an airliner.
Who wants to be at an airline where just anybody can walk into training? Take some pride in where you start your career. You may end up getting stuck there awhile.