Junior assigned at Mesa

[sbav8r]

The great part is that I don't even work for Mesa. Rode the jumpeat into PHX and was met at the gate by some little prick from the crew scheduling mafia. This guy looked like the kind of weasle that truly enjoyed junior assigning crews. Like he kinda got a kick out of having authority over pilots. He stood there and demanded that I show him my badge in the terminal. I gave him a hard time for a while in an effort to buy the crew enough time to get the hell out of there. Finally, I showed him my badge after he gave me an assignment. He made some smart remark and ran off looking for the FO, who was probably in the parking lot by this point.

Thanks for the ride guys, hope the rest of your day off went well.

 

[siucavflight]

The great part is that I don't even work for Mesa. Rode the jumpeat into PHX and was met at the gate by some little prick from the crew scheduling mafia. This guy looked like the kind of weasle that truly enjoyed junior assigning crews. Like he kinda got a kick out of having authority over pilots. He stood there and demanded that I show him my badge in the terminal. I gave him a hard time for a while in an effort to buy the crew enough time to get the hell out of there. Finally, I showed him my badge after he gave me an assignment. He made some smart remark and ran off looking for the FO, who was probably in the parking lot by this point.

Thanks for the ride guys, hope the rest of your day off went well.

Awesome, nice work!

 

[DX Rick]

Awesome.
I would have made a scene, pointed him out to TSA and said he was trying to steel my ID and uniform to gain access to the cockpit.
Last time MEsa would send schedulers to the terminal.

 

[Gr82Aviate]

Awesome.
I would have made a scene, pointed him out to TSA and said he was trying to steel my ID and uniform to gain access to the cockpit.
Last time MEsa would send schedulers to the terminal.

Don't be too sure about that...some of them would probably enjoy the full body cavity search!

 

[Soverytired]

I gave him a hard time for a while in an effort to buy the crew enough time to get the hell out of there. Finally, I showed him my badge after he gave me an assignment. He made some smart remark and ran off looking for the FO, who was probably in the parking lot by this point.

Thanks for the ride guys, hope the rest of your day off went well.

Dude, you are so welcome in my jumpseat anytime!

And yeah, our crew trackers are out of control. I watched a Dash 8 crew walk into the terminal from a plane and watch a crew tracker try to junior assign the captain a CRJ flight.

 

[Jack Mehoff]

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

 

[NoJoy]

He was there not to JA but to "re-assign"

 

[rogerwilcoout]

The great part is that I don't even work for Mesa. Rode the jumpeat into PHX and was met at the gate by some little prick from the crew scheduling mafia. This guy looked like the kind of weasle that truly enjoyed junior assigning crews. Like he kinda got a kick out of having authority over pilots. He stood there and demanded that I show him my badge in the terminal. I gave him a hard time for a while in an effort to buy the crew enough time to get the hell out of there. Finally, I showed him my badge after he gave me an assignment. He made some smart remark and ran off looking for the FO, who was probably in the parking lot by this point.

Thanks for the ride guys, hope the rest of your day off went well.

Bull********************

 

[relief tube]

At RAH, no junior manning and all days off even for reserves are hard days off that can't be movied.

Not the highest payscale on the block, but the above to me is worth a lot.

 

[N4niner206]

At RAH, no junior manning and all days off even for reserves are hard days off that can't be movied.

Not the highest payscale on the block, but the above to me is worth a lot.

Why do these threads always turn into a "At my regional, we don't do that... we're better than that" , always compliments of some ******************************bag at Expressjet or Republic. Keep drinking the koolade my friend... I've heard the stories about RAH!!!

 

[Soverytired]

Bull********************

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).

 

[rickair7777]

Dude, you are so welcome in my jumpseat anytime!

And yeah, our crew trackers are out of control. I watched a Dash 8 crew walk into the terminal from a plane and watch a crew tracker try to junior assign the captain a CRJ flight.

Haha! They tried to to JRA me a dash trip when I was on the CRJ once (as I was walking off a CRJ). I played it for all it was worth, strung the guy along for about five minutes until he got the CP on the line. When I handed the phone back to the CT guy I could EVERYTHING the CP said to the little clown, it was that loud!

 

[rickair7777]

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).

Ah, yes summer 2005...fond memories of dragging my rollaboard across the ramp to another jetway...wearing an Hawiian shirt over my uniform.

 

[rickair7777]

Bull********************

Obviously you've never worked at mesa. This is ENTIRELY plausible, that what makes it so funny.

Maybe I'll JS through PHX on mesa next time I go home, just to see if I can get JRA'ed. I can replace my epualets with my old mesa epualets to make me more attractive as bait!

 

[rickair7777]

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

That happened in PHX in 2005. The CT's had mesa badges, but not SIDA badges. The vast majority of the gates had jetways, (expect for two ) so the CT's could legally hang out in the jetway. Well this one CT went all the way out to the far-end CRJ200/dash parking spot on the ramp at B-15 (IIRC). He was WAY out in the SIDA area with no SIDA badge. The CA called for security on the ground freq...they came out and hooked the guy up.

 

[Turtlesfly]

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.

 

[flyer172r]

That story just made my day.

 

[Spinplate]

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.

That would be funny!! Even better.... if you were on the plane trying to non-rev or jumpseat home and your on the plane that has no crew because someone actually does this! LOL

 

[Soverytired]

It really speaks volumes about Mesa when their crew trackers "track" their pilots by randomly trolling through airports grabbing people who look like pilots . . .

 

[khsgt]

I climbed out of an airplane in a polo shirt, first "passenger" off the aircraft, because they were trying to junior assign me for two days later (middle of three days off and I commute). As the gate agent was running down the jetway, somebody on the other end of the radio was telling her to notify the captain, as I stroll up as a normal passenger....and my phone starts blowing up three min's later...as I just laugh and laugh hard...

Score: 1 for me, 0 for mesa

Fix it or Burn it, and I think right now, that only leaves one option.

 

[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?