Mesa Go! starts GO!Express... NOT A JOKE!

[John Pennekamp]

We have an opportunity for as many as FOUR people working directly underneath you.

Yeah... I'm gonna have to go ahead and tell you to come back later, Bill. I have a meeting with the two Bobs.

 

[islandhopper]

Didn't Mesa take a crappy contract in order to get scope? I'm serious.

Yes, and go! express would be a clear violation. Notice I said "would be" because they havent done anything yet except talk about it.

If this goes any further, the Mesa MEC will enforce the SCOPE and ALPA pilots in Hawaii will be there to walk with Mesa pilots.

Rumor is Hawaii is getting way too hot for JO and his shareholders are demanding he pull out. The entire go! CRJ operation will be spun off and all the flying shifted to Mokulele's certificate. JO wants to simply say "FU ALPA, I sold the operation" and walk away.

We got him covered on every side. All the lights are shining on Mesa now. They cant hide.

 

[rickair7777]

Didn't Mesa take a crappy contract in order to get scope? I'm serious.

I'm not entirely certain that the scope covers ASEL...

 

[islandhopper]

I'm not entirely certain that the scope covers ASEL...

I think the words "any and all" about cover it. And in case there is any confusion they added a "without limitation"... Although I think what evrybody would be worried about is #3 creating an "alter-ego"

B. Scope

1. Except as provided in Section 1.B.2, all present and future flying of any form performed in and for the service of the Company shall be performed by pilots on the Mesa Air Group Pilot System Seniority List in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement. The phrase “present and future flying of any form performed in and for the service of the Company” includes without limitation all such flying 1) on the Company’s aircraft (whether leased or owned), or 2) under the Company’s operational control, including wet leases and contracting for other carriers or entities (government, military or commercial).

2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1.B.1., above, the Company may assign or contract out revenue flying for a period of sixty (60) days during the term of this Agreement if a) such conduct is necessary to accomplish the needs of the service of the Company, and b) the Company does not have sufficient aircraft and pilots to perform the revenue flying assigned or contracted out, and c) no pilot on the Mesa Air Group Pilots System Seniority List is furloughed, or remains on furlough, while the company contracts out revenue flying.

3. The Company shall not create or acquire an “alter ego” to avoid the terms and conditions of this Agreement.

 

[skydivinguy]

im not a huge mesa fan but im all about seeing pw getting screwed!!!! id encourage all pilots who visit the islands to ask for g k at pw and make a video of him cause he likes it- and make sure he is never hireable at any airline- (when pw goes under) ive worked there- he is worse than jo....... believe me

which GK Jea? Pizza the hut or the hunchback of OGG?!?

 

[dash8driver]

which GK Jea? Pizza the hut or the hunchback of OGG?!?

which is the guy with the sperm-catcher under his lip?

 

[skydivinguy]

which is the guy with the sperm-catcher under his lip?

that's GK jr., VFR Capt., Ducati ******************************bag, hunchback of Kahului, screaming little girl on the news with wackenhut guard threating to kill him etc. etc.....

 

[dash8driver]

what happened to him? does he still work there? does he still get on FI?

 

[jea]

which GK Jea? Pizza the hut or the hunchback of OGG?!?

im gonna have to say the hunchback of ogg with the spooge catcher for pizza the huts pleasure.... though pizza the hut is all about publicity- he likes to be videoed as well im sure- with hunchback- oh wait.... im sure they have already

oh and yeah hes on here often- though they have discovered myspace as a way to fire employees- they are awesome

 

[fly_lanai]

Yeah they fired me just for saying the company sucked!

 

[Soverytired]

Yes, and go! express would be a clear violation. Notice I said "would be" because they havent done anything yet except talk about it.

If this goes any further, the Mesa MEC will enforce the SCOPE and ALPA pilots in Hawaii will be there to walk with Mesa pilots.

.

Well, get ready to walk then. Don't expect alot of walkers though . . . Mesa is reducing the base sizes in HNL, OGG and LIH. (I should also point out that this would seem to suggest that Mesa probably isn't getting ready to flood the market with 20 more CRJ's anytime soon.)

I spoke with one of our MEC reps recently, and this is an active grevience.

And considering the huge heaping piles of crap I've heard over the years about how everything crappy in the contract was worth it because our "unbreakable, gold plated scope clause", it will be an interesting thing to watch.

 

[Z_Pilot]

One thing that I'd like to point out to the Aloha & Hawaiian pilot group is that we (Go! line pilots) are your greatest allies. This little experiment out here started off pretty well for us, it was an escape from the pandemonium on the mainland. Now that the operation is unraveling (min-staffing, frequent delays) and our contract is up in 2007, many (or most) of us have had it! It would be all to easy to bury this operation in, oh, let's say 2 weeks.

Z

 

[OB-CPO]

Mesa will have three open lawsuits in Hawaii if they start go! Express. Hawaiian, Aloha, and the Mesa pilots. Thats got to be some kind of a record.

 

[islandhopper]

One thing that I'd like to point out to the Aloha & Hawaiian pilot group is that we (Go! line pilots) are your greatest allies. This little experiment out here started off pretty well for us, it was an escape from the pandemonium on the mainland. Now that the operation is unraveling (min-staffing, frequent delays) and our contract is up in 2007, many (or most) of us have had it! It would be all to easy to bury this operation in, oh, let's say 2 weeks.

Z

Z-pilot, are you a Captain or FO? Do you know anybody at Aloha? We are hiring and already interviewed a couple of your friends there at go!