EEEK, Typical Mesa schedule

[FreightNazi]

[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica]This is a typical schedule of what you should see as a newhire for the first year or so...

Line 59 ORD CRJ

Sun Oct 23 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 24 Off
Tue 25 Off
Wed 26 Reserve 0600-1800
Thur 27 Reserve 0600-1800
Fri 28 Reserve 0600-1800
Sat 29 Reserve 0600-1800
Sun 30 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 31 Reserve 0600-1800
Tue Nov 1 Off
Wed 2 Off
Thur 3 Reserve 0600-1800
Fri 4 Reserve 0600-1800
Sat 5 Reserve 0600-1800
Sun 6 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 7 Reserve 0600-1800
Tue 8 Reserve 0600-1800
Wed 9 Off
Thur 10 Off
Fri 11 Reserve 0600-1800
Sat 12 Reserve 0600-1800
Sun 13 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 14 Reserve 0600-1800
Tue 15 Reserve 0600-1800
Wed 16 Reserve 0600-1800
Thur 17 Off
Fri 18 Off
Sat 19 Reserve 0600-1800

8 days off
70 hours of pay[/FONT]

 

[UnstableAviator]

Painful....

 

[viper548]

Ouch!

 

[Sig]

What a friggin' dump. Abandon all hope, ye who enter here; wtf are you thinking?

Kinda funny one of the highest (if not THE highest) paid pilots on this board posted this.

 

[shamrock]

Throw in 2 more days off (on a 30-31 day bid) and extend the on-call time from 12 hours to 15 and you have ASA reserve. :uzi:

 

[WyoHerkdriver]

Don't forget about the wonderful twelve hour ready reserve shifts that Mesa loves to assign (but not pay for).

 

[sweptback]

Throw in 2 more days off (on a 30-31 day bid) and extend the on-call time from 12 hours to 15 and you have ASA reserve. :uzi:

And never mind the fact that only 4 of those 10 days off are biddable, the rest are assigned to you with no request system, or anything like that. The good news is, you'll rarely have the same days off that were on your "final" schedule.

 

[skychicken]

Throw in 2 more days off (on a 30-31 day bid) and extend the on-call time from 12 hours to 15 and you have ASA reserve. :uzi:

Well tack Piedmont on that same schedule!!! Ain't ig great, especially when they only fly you half of those daysuke:

 

[PeanuckleCRJ]

We get 10 days off.. reserve is around 12 hours...all 90 minute call, 75 hour guarantee.... Never thought one of our schedules would look good compared to something but that is just atrocious.

 

[Sig]

Well tack Piedmont on that same schedule!!! uke:

One huge difference: PDT ain't MESA, no matter how bad it gets here. That poor SOB above is making even less (a lot less) than you on RSV. Rough way to starve.

 

[Tyro]

[FONT=verdana, arial, helvetica]This is a typical schedule of what you should see as a newhire for the first year or so...

Line 59 ORD CRJ

Sun Oct 23 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 24 Off
Tue 25 Off
Wed 26 Reserve 0600-1800
Thur 27 Reserve 0600-1800
Fri 28 Reserve 0600-1800
Sat 29 Reserve 0600-1800
Sun 30 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 31 Reserve 0600-1800
Tue Nov 1 Off
Wed 2 Off
Thur 3 Reserve 0600-1800
Fri 4 Reserve 0600-1800
Sat 5 Reserve 0600-1800
Sun 6 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 7 Reserve 0600-1800
Tue 8 Reserve 0600-1800
Wed 9 Off
Thur 10 Off
Fri 11 Reserve 0600-1800
Sat 12 Reserve 0600-1800
Sun 13 Reserve 0600-1800
Mon 14 Reserve 0600-1800
Tue 15 Reserve 0600-1800
Wed 16 Reserve 0600-1800
Thur 17 Off
Fri 18 Off
Sat 19 Reserve 0600-1800

8 days off
70 hours of pay[/FONT]

Gee...this isn’t really that bad, Compadres. And the pay is commensurate to the work produced...

No - I’m Serious!

 

[RJ Bum]

Don't forget about the wonderful twelve hour ready reserve shifts that Mesa loves to assign (but not pay for).

ouch, I hope you have cable in the crew lounge.

 

[1973Arrow]

only 8 days off....that sucks...
Don't know anything about Mesa's Union, but I'm supprised they don't have anything to say about it.

 

[logolight]

You want to act like whores, you're gonna get treated like one.

 

[ex j-41]

November

You know what your november schedule is?

You got it good.....As for the 8 days off...now that sucks.

 

[Beantown]

Don't forget about the wonderful twelve hour ready reserve shifts that Mesa loves to assign (but not pay for).

Just so everyone has the facts:

1. 12 hr RR shift pays 5.9 hrs. (far from nothing)

2. Mesa is on a 28 day bid, so 8 days off is 9 days off in a month. (one less then most)

3. B/C of the 28 day bid, the 70 hr guarantee is 76 hrs in a month. (one More then most)

Carry on -Bean

 

[screwed_again]

That's a super cool pic of you, Freight Nazi.

 

[threegreen]

wow that is a crap schedule.

 

[Sig]

Just so everyone has the facts:

1. 12 hr RR shift pays 5.9 hrs. (far from nothing)

2. Mesa is on a 28 day bid, so 8 days off is 9 days off in a month. (one less then most)

3. B/C of the 28 day bid, the 70 hr guarantee is 76 hrs in a month. (one More then most)

Carry on -Bean

Ahh. So why do (did) we see so many folks routinely sleeping in the crew room in PHL? Some kind of "hot" or "airport" or someother double-secret reserve? It was always after 1800, btw. Was it krap pay, or krap reserve rules, or both?

 

[Axel]

Ahh. So why do (did) we see so many folks routinely sleeping in the crew room in PHL? ...

Cheaper than a crash-pad?

 

[av8er2]

And what's the pay???

So you want to be a pilot uhh?

 

[mamba20]

You go to Mesa, you deserve it.

 

[labbats]

I have no respect for Mesa or Mesa workers. Never will.

 

[Sig]

Cheaper than a crash-pad?

And 100% less dignity.

 

[OnTheDole]

"Typical schedule" - my ass

Typical if your a brand new FO or Capt. I worked there for a few years and never had a schedule like that. Right now a FO can hold a line in Chicago with only a few months online.

Just more people babbling on about something they know nothing about.

 

[OnTheDole]

Oh- and Labbats

Was it all your glorious experience in Cessnas or pipers that made you such incredible judge of character? - Douche

 

[Lance501]

Thats ok, me and the rest of my buddies here at Mesa will upgrade next month and be able to move on to the Majors in a year. Oh wait a minute..... we fly 90 soon to be 110 seat aircraft? I guess we killed the dream we wanted so bad.

 

[91100 100 set]

Not to dump more fuel on a fire that already burning pretty hot, but I understand that a "day off" isn't actually a calender day, but a 24 hour period, which creates the possibility for all kinds of garbage. Finish an assignment at noon on Tuesday. Report at 1300 on Wednesday for the next assignment. There's your day off buddy.

 

[Dirty Sanchez]

You should have read the contract and talked to someone about the schedule before you took the job.

Quit crying.

 

[xdashdriver]

Not to dump more fuel on a fire that already burning pretty hot, but I understand that a "day off" isn't actually a calender day, but a 24 hour period, which creates the possibility for all kinds of garbage. Finish an assignment at noon on Tuesday. Report at 1300 on Wednesday for the next assignment. There's your day off buddy.

Day off is a calendar day per the contract.