Mesa now bunks together on cont duty

[Muppets]

I wouldn't want my wife, girlfriend, mother, sister, etc. sleeping for 4 hours with some Mesa dude in a hotel......then again I wouldn't let my wife, sister, girlfriend, mother, etc. work for Mesa, JO, Freedumb, Air Midwest, etc.

 

[sitbackrelax]

QX doesn't do CDOs anymore, and to my knowledge we've NEVER been forced to bunk together. Sh!t, I never even had to do that at a dirtbag 135 freight op.

Now maybe I missed something about overnight CDOs but I was referencing this:

page 29 of CBA:

B. Short Term Lodging
If a daytime layover is scheduled to exceed five hours, the Company will provide a day
room (double occupancy for crew members of the same sex).​

I know Mesa has a very shoddy contract but, people are a little too eager to throw rocks on this forum. ​

 

[AMANSWORLD]

looks like brokeback mountain at Mesa...

Dec 28th, 2006
WFAA-TV
Pilots admit to flying tired. Some have fallen asleep during takeoff. Also Online

One of the nation's largest regional airlines is changing its policy regarding sleeping on planes. This action follows a News 8 investigation on pilot fatigue.

Mesa Airlines will no longer force pilots to "camp out" in the passenger section of planes when the aircraft are parked between flights overnight.

News 8 broke the story on "camp outs," last month.
Until our investigation, if you were flying Mesa Airlines, your pilot might have rolled out a sleeping bag and curled up in the cabin of an airplane the night before your flight.

Mesa flies into Dallas under the U.S. Airways Express brand and is one of the largest regional airlines in the country.
On overnight schedules between flights, Mesa pilots regularly took off their ties, took apart seats to make a bed, and stretched out to try to get some sleep.

It's part of what can often be a twelve hour long duty day for many regional pilots, and they say that leads to exhaustion and mistakes.

"Almost landing on the wrong runway," said one pilot who asked not to be identified, "[or] landing with a checklist that turned out to be incomplete."

As at most airlines, Mesa pilots fly what's called continuous duty overnights. That's where they might have to spend as much as four hours on the ground in the middle of the night.
It's all within FAA regulations.

But now, after News 8 revealed pilots were camping out on their aircraft, Mesa modified its procedures.

In a crew briefing obtained by News 8, Mesa is now telling its pilots, "All continuous duty overnights less than four hours will have one crew hotel room available. Please contact the (Mesa) hotel desk."

In other words, Mesa will now pay for a crew to split a hotel room instead of camping out on the plane.

When News 8 contacted Mesa about the change, airline spokesman Paul Skellon said, "We have no comment."
But pilots say a hotel room won't solve the real problem.

"We don't transport ourselves from the airplane to a hotel bed and are immediately asleep," said one pilot. "Pilots have to be transported to the hotel and a lot of times, transportation doesn't come to them in a timely manner."

Check out the pickup area at any airport and you'll see pilots waiting for a ride to the hotel. Every minute of waiting time eats into sleep a pilot needs to function.

A lot of pilots say their sleep deprivation is constant. It's not just when they're on continuous duty overnights, but it is throughout their work schedule. They say they regularly fly on as little as four hours of sleep.

It's a problem, pilots say, that exists not just at Mesa, but every regional airline in the country.

I cannot believe the union or the pilot group has tolerated this.Or the FAA for that matter. Someone has big balls and the other one has no backbone in this case.
You Mesa guys and gals wonder why people bash your pilot group...

 

[BeCareful!]

I wonder how proud Doug Parker is that US Airways was mentioned in this news story. Mesa's scumbag image is such a drag to be a witness to, and I think all interested parties should write to Dougie and tell him this.

 

[rickair7777]

I wonder how proud Doug Parker is that US Airways was mentioned in this news story. Mesa's scumbag image is such a drag to be a witness to, and I think all interested parties should write to Dougie and tell him this.

Dougie already knows, but unfortunately he's stuck with mesa until 2012 (I think).

 

[rickair7777]

Now maybe I missed something about overnight CDOs but I was referencing this:

page 29 of CBA:

B. Short Term Lodging
If a daytime layover is scheduled to exceed five hours, the Company will provide a day
room (double occupancy for crew members of the same sex).​

I know Mesa has a very shoddy contract but, people are a little too eager to throw rocks on this forum. ​

ROTFLMAO...just because it says so in the mesa contract doesn't mean it's actually done...

I NEVER had a day room during several miserable years at mesa. Don't think I ever heard of anyone else mentioning it either.

 

[urflyingme?!]

I've gotten them. Maybe you should have called the hotel desk. No room, no flight.

 

[Muppets]

Do you hang up your windbreaker in the hotel closet and let it rest for a while!!!
Just kidding, I couldn't resist!

 

[urflyingme?!]

No, I don't have a windbreaker. Usually I just go to sleep, instead of throwing out childish insults to other pilots. But then again, I'm not a moron.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Who wants to bet Mesa pilots will see a rise in sexual harrassment lawsuits, divorce filings, pregnancies, and a push for the legalization of same-sex marriage?

I can see it playing out like this...

F/O: Capt, you were impressive last night with that ILS approach.

CAPT: Thanks man, you were really impressive in the shower this morning...you know, dong wise.