Mesa Pay

[RCA]

Does anyone out there especially Mesa guys relize comair FO's are taking a 20 percent paycut, and will still be paid $4/hr more per hour

Oh yeah the other day I saw one of your sweet 90 seaters. The tail number was XXXXJO. How does that feel when you fill out your logbook.

 

[Av8rPHX]

Interesting, considering the "sweet 90 seaters" have either a FJ or LR registration. (N902FJ-N925FJ,N934FJ,N926LR-N956LR).

 

[urflyingme?!]

Good for you! Oh man the letters J and O WHATCHOUT!

Thanks for letting the Mesa guys know about pay. It's a good thing you're here! I had no idea!

 

[Road Rash]

Does anyone out there especially Mesa guys relize comair FO's are taking a 20 percent paycut, and will still be paid $4/hr more per hour

Oh yeah the other day I saw one of your sweet 90 seaters. The tail number was XXXXJO. How does that feel when you fill out your logbook.

Please for the love of your own self esteem get a life.

 

[Bryan D]

Does anyone out there especially Mesa guys relize comair FO's are taking a 20 percent paycut, and will still be paid $4/hr more per hour.

You mean the ones that don't get furloughed?

 

[Superpilot92]

You mean the ones that don't get furloughed?

Look out here we have another Mesa recruit. PRICK!!

 

[CapnVegetto]

Hell, the way you guys are all taking cuts, pretty soon the Mesa guys will be calling you all whores.

 

[YourPilotFriend]

As far as I know tail numbers don't have O or I in them.

 

[CLE145CA]

But, if I am not mistaken, the MESA pilots start contract negotiations sometime next year. Hopefully the pilots will stand together and bring their pay up a decent amount to narrow or eliminate the gap with other pilot groups. This move will help the profession and give little reason for management to continue pitting one group of our brothers against another.

 

[Flyin2low]

CHQ has a 145 with a JO in the N-number

 

[StarChecker]

CHQ has a 145 with a JO in the N-number

We have 3 that end with JQ...

257JQ
258JQ
259JQ


No JO's.

 

[The Truth]

Another insightful post RCA. Great investigative work there, Skippy! Four whole dollars more per hour, huh? Man, that's a LOT of money. Roughly similiar to the raise you got when you went from a shelf stocker to a checker at Albertsons last year. You must feel pretty good about yourself...I think you've officially "made it". I see thoase braces in your future with you pulling down that kind of dough!

Four dollars per hour. What a sizeable difference. WOW. I still can't believe that...FOUR dollars per hour. I think I need to get back to regional flying if that's the case.

 

[Cloudroller]

RCA - I doubt you were around before Comair got their contract. Just to let you know I was an apprentice alpa at Mesa and was having money (along with many others) taken from my paycheck to support the Comair strike. Do you think Comair will be their to support the Mesa pilots? Some how i doubt they will. As most of the ones I have seen look down on all other Regional Pilots.

 

[urflyingme?!]

RCA do u even really fly for an airline?

PS My dad can beat up your dad

 

[Lone Star]

Hey RCA what airline do you fly for? I mean flight school. I hate it when I do that.

 

[wheelsup]

Does anyone out there especially Mesa guys relize comair FO's are taking a 20 percent paycut, and will still be paid $4/hr more per hour

Comair isn't the only one.

AWAC 2nd year FO pay prior to concessions
CRJ200 (50 seat): $39/hr
Mesa: $28/hr

After 15% concessions: $34/hr
Mesa: $28/hr

The Truth - $4/hr is over $4k/yr. While I agree it's not a tremendous amount of $$ every $1/hr is $1,000/yr more income. Also, mesa's per diem is what, $1.17 or something? With average trip lengths over the course of the year, I will earn over $1,000 more in non-taxable per diem here. So my first year pay is ~$24,000* as opposed to $22,000* or so for mesa, second year jumps to $36,000* vs. $29,000* - pretty significant when you're talking about that low of pay in general, IMO.

*Using the tried and true hourly x 1000 hrs. Doesn't include "soft" pay. Includes per diem.

Still, if you want a quick upgrade and can put up with the initial lower pay, go to mesa. If you made your choice to go to another company and receive higher pay (initially, until you upgrade @ mesa) then don't expect to upgrade as quick as the mesa people and don't b1tch out it. I made my choice, and am so far happy with it...

You can't have good pay, good QOL, and quick upgrade. It just doesn't work like that...

~wheelsup

 

[The Truth]

Good post wheelsup.

"You can't have good pay, good QOL, and quick upgrade. It just doesn't work like that..."

Can't argue that!

 

[NJA bound]

I started at NetJets a couple months ago, FOs salary is $46,286. the first year, and perdiem adds up to around another 5K on top of that that you should be able to save because the company buys your meals while you're flying.

 

[urflyingme?!]

Just curious what is the sched like there, is it on-call or do u bid lines?

I've never actually heard how it's done over there...

(serious question!)

 

[RCA]

First I fly for comair. And your right 4 bucks is nothing, however prior to the 20 PECENT PAY REDUCTION it was $13 or so which is like the truth said 13k. Not to mention $1.75 vs $1.21 per diem not to mention work rules.
I feel like Im fighting with the old lady. We all agree the industry sucks. But when someone points something out they defend the sucky part.