Mesa slides off runway in Madison too

[Steveair]

http://wkow.madison.com/News/index.php?ID=17042

United Airlines United flight 7258 from Chicago touched down at 11:15 a.m., but the plane slid off the end of a runway at the Dane County Regional Airport.

Airport operations brought a bus out to transport the 25 passengers to the terminal...no one was injured.

As of 12:30 Saturday afternoon, the airport was still open but virtually all flights in and out of the airport were canceled due to weather at other airports.

 

[grog_sit_reserv]

According to the report: Both the cities of Madison and Stoughton have declared snow emergencies.

 

[T-prop]

It's probably the CA's first time driving anything on the snow.

Gotta love learning how to fly in Farmington and Phoenix...

 

[eaglefly]

It's probably the CA's first time driving anything on the snow.

Gotta love learning how to fly in Farmington and Phoenix...

I give them a 1/2 point for even hitting within the airport boundary.

A little more cash out of J.O's pocket is always a good thing.

 

[Stifler's Mom]

How do you find the METAR that was for that hour? I'm curious to see what it said.

 

[regionaltard]

How do you find the METAR that was for that hour? I'm curious to see what it said.

(.Y.)

 

[Stifler's Mom]

Thanks.

KMSN 011653Z 13008KT 1/4SM +SN FZFG VV002 M07/M08 A3033 RMK AO2 TWR VIS 1/2 SLP287 SNINCR 1/1 P0003 T10671083

 

[Secret Squirrel]

See if they would have returned to Chicago they would have been paid nothing for the flight.

 

[Oakum_Boy]

You're kidding, right?

 

[WSurf]

You're kidding, right?

Unfortunately he isn't kidding. They wouldn't have been paid for the flight back to ORD.

 

[outtahere]

how is that?

 

[Oakum_Boy]

No wonder no one wants to pay me anything if they are paying nothing at Mesa!

 

[WSurf]

They are only paid for a specific block time for a flight. So if the flight from ORD to Madison was averaged at 1.0 hrs then thats what they get.

So basically when your working the hardest (Dealing with weather, Holding, Deicing, Ground Stops etc) you are working for free.

I worked for a Block only airline before, believe me it sucks. People tend to push the limits when they are only getting paid a certain amount of time for a flight.

 

[Papa Woody]

"when they start paying me like a professional, I'll make better landings on snow!"

 

[Mazer]

Mesa is not the only ones that going off taxiways.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21939632/

 

[DX Rick]

Mesa is not the only ones that going off taxiways.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21939632/

Not a good day for the CRJ

 

[FADECtoBLACK]

Not a good day for the CRJ

We should be seeing an STC for tire chains here in the near future.

 

[Cows Go Moo]

double submit

 

[Cows Go Moo]

Unfortunately he isn't kidding. They wouldn't have been paid for the flight back to ORD.

Would you please stop making stuff up about Mesa? If you've going to talk about their contract, read it. Don't assume your old contract is the same as ours.

Here's what would have happened if they had turned around... a flight leaves an ORD gate, sits an hour for deice/departure delays, takes off, holds waiting for destination weather to improve, eventually turns around and comes back to ORD. Total time, 3 hours. Total pay, 3 hours. If we end up anywhere other than our planned destination we get paid block time. Includes return to gates.

 

[PBRstreetgang]

It hasn't been said yet in this thread, MESA sukks!
Oh yeah, SKYW has eliminated all requirements for upgrade since deciding to transfer all CRJs to SKYW airlines and replace all ASAs A/C with Metros! Did I forget any hijack flame?
PBR