Mesa Go'n East?

[stall022]

Somebody on one of these boards said Johnny O was a convicted criminal.. Anybody know what crime he committed?

SEC exchange fraud. he didn't do any jail time but was banned from trading for a few years.

 

[PHXFLYR]

Jonny O. is a bastard, but without him Mesa would cease to exist.

How do you come up with that?


PHXFLYR

 

[Cloudroller]

His kids now do his trading. At one time they were also payed consultants at Mesa.

 

[Jon Rivoli]

He's the one that lines up the work for you, without that you're out of business. Nothing against any pilots flying for Mesa, but Mesa isn't exactly a quality product; on time, completion, etc. call it poor management on the operation side. JO can sell it and close a deal, not easy to do when your product is crap. When he was at Mesa before he built it into the largest regional in the country with all its affiliated airlines. He left and it fell apart, now he's back and closing deals, lining up work. Again, I have nothing against anyone at Mesa, their pilots are as good as any, but frankly flying the planes is the easiest part of this industry. You can have the planes, the crews, the gates, but if you don't have a customer, you're out of business and JO has proven quite adept at keeping Mesa's planes flying. I'm just glad I don't work for him.

 

[suupah]

mesa in IAH

Who is the codeshare out of IAH?

 

[islandhopper]

SEC exchange fraud. he didn't do any jail time but was banned from trading for a few years.

Google "SEC vs Jonathan G. Ornstien 1992" i cant find the original document but it is referenced quite a bit.

 

[Beantown]

Who is the codeshare out of IAH?

The new US Airways. The IAH pilot base is a mid point for CRJ900 flying going and coming from PHX and CLT. It will only be open for 4-8 months and then CLT will open as a CRJ base. -Bean