Junior assigned at Mesa

[DX Rick]

Mesa sounds like it's Ghetto Fabulous. Making schedulers chase down crew members in the terminal. I can see MAD TV doing a good skit on that. Crew members hiding behind garbage cans, dressing up in TSA Uniforms and or hiding in the the over head bins while sneaky eyed little trackers chase them about.

DO these schedulers have no souls? For thier crap pay, they tell me to go do that. I would quit as I was walking out the front door.

 

[Beantown]

I heard a good story about one of the crew trackers walking around the ramp at IAD JA'n crews. Well one of the Crews Called the airport cops saying an unauthorized person was out on the sida area with no badge. The story goes that the cops grabbed the A-hole tracker and mesa got a huge fine. If thats true...Awesome

This did happen. About 2 months ago in IAD. I was in the crew room when the cops came in and escorted the crewtracker off the airport. He was fired and and Mesa was fined. -Bean

 

[fried chickens]

I knew they were trying to JA me so I had my bags in the cockpit and jump out first before all the passengers. I walked right by the guy trying to JA me. Apparently, he thought I was dead heading or something and just ignored me. As I'm boarding my flight home, I heard them calling me on the PA to return to my gate. The best was another time they tried to JA me and found out that Courtney Cox was on the flight. They were so busy trying to get her autograph that they forgot about me.

 

[sbav8r]

Now if you were really anti-MESA, what you could have done was tell the crew tracker that you accept the trip . . .

. . . never telling the "Actual" crew of the reassignment, then let the crew get in trouble for no-showing the next assignment.

Not that I'm advocating it, I'm just saying that would be even funnier - the crew gets another call as they're in the parking lot about to leave.

Not anti-Mesa at all. On the contrary, I feel for anyone that has to deal with that bull...

I wasn't looking to screw with the crew, but screwing with that crewtracker made my week. I hope I get to do it again! Next time I might have to take the paper and then get your CP's number so I can call and tell him that I was just given a repo flight to CHS. "Is there premium pay offered for this, too bad I don't work for you."

 

[Turtlesfly]

sbav8r,

Is that avatar from Dr. Strangelove?

 

[belchfire]

Ya know, I would almost get a Mesa lanyard and some of the right kind mesa boards for jumpseating if I could lead some fracking scheulder down the path long enough for the crew to escape!

There is a solution to the JA on the releases. The CA can't sign it because there exists the possibility of a deversion and then the crew would not be there for the next assignment and it needs to be removed from the release.

 

[Inconceivable]

There is a solution to the JA on the releases. The CA can't sign it because there exists the possibility of a deversion and then the crew would not be there for the next assignment and it needs to be removed from the release.

Or you can tear it off of the gate copy.
Fold it, lick it, fold it, lick it, tear it.
Technologic.

 

[sbav8r]

sbav8r,

Is that avatar from Dr. Strangelove?

Sure is... Col. Jack D Ripper

 

[rogerwilcoout]

I can assure you, this sounds EXACTLY like what happens at Mesa on a daily basis.

Now they're adding junior assignments to the "release" paperwork, right above where the captain signs the paperwork where he verifies that he's read all the release (all 40 pages of it . . . yeah right).

Mesa Crew Trackers . . . you can run, but you can't hide (unless you change shirts and jump out the service door).

Meeting crews at the gate is an everyday thing at Mesa. The part I am calling you an idiot for is that you said you accepted an assignment before they knew who you were. You are a tool ! Is this Doug?