SW never closed their IAH CRJ base. They will have no trouble picking up our Ejet flying there. SW is also making noise about making a play for our DFW CRJ flying. SW won't need to buy Mesa --- at this point, they just need to wait for AA or UA to drop us and pick up the flying.

You all have choices beyond yes or no. It's a good time to be a pilot.

what date do you vote?

Regionals folding because they can't compete with pay and benefits isn't a bad thing for the industry in the long run...

One shouldn't vote "yes" to accept mediocrity just to maintain the status quo at a regional lagging in pay/benefits/work rules out of fear if they strive to be better it's the end of the company.

I would vote NO solely on the fact of y'alls healthcare! Wake up MESA pilots!!

You have a choice to work at MESA. Work somewhere else! Vote with your feet.

Yeah. The union says health care was low on the polling data. How did they ask? Who did they ask?

Healthcare is a basic requirement to gainful employment in the United States. Mesa simply avoids paying for it not only for the pilot's, but for the company as a whole. Since the company is unwilling to properly insure, then the very least they can do is compensate as average pay, not below.

Reasonable insurance was my number 1 issue when got called for the last survey.

A no vote doesn't mean you want the company to fold, it means you expect at least an average contract commensurate with the rest of the industry. We still don't have that.
In mediation, they achieved a TA within a month and a half. If we vote no and go back to mediation, we can work out another fairly quickly. The company is willing, we just need to push the negioators and MEC to accept nothing less than we deserve. Regardless of what Max said yesterday, there will not be another polling or any delays other than what the mediator thinks. No reason to be parked.

Don't let fear make you a yes vote. Vote yes or no on whether you think it deserves that vote.

The union did a couple of polls. However, the wording in these polls made it impossible to actually determine what the pilot group wanted. Questions were written like the following example, "Which is more important, pay or insurance?"

These so called polls did not allow us to truly state what our pilot group needs. These were done in a manner that the union can now say, "We heard heard you and negotiated for what you wanted"

Meh. Just talked to a guy that got 750 his first year. Facts ya know.