Question About Mesa

[Otto Coarsen]

As many empty seats as we have...

 

[climbhappy]

no reason whatsoever...

should preclude you from moving on by working at Mesa. One could only get that impression from the deluge of ranting posts, often repetitive, never substantive, and always negative.

many of my former buds at CC air are there now. some of this business's finest airmen. 350 driver is right.

southwest airlines is getting ready to"pull out all the stops" as quoted in USA today, and it will, in my view spell the end of US AIR. Us Air will have to lower costs another 30% to stay in business. My premise points to this. Mesa didn't lower the bar, because ALPA signed off on the deal with CC Air. Is Ornstein a shrewd, unscrupulous businessman, who given todays prosecutorial attitiudes, may have been imprisoned had he been tried for his stock trading. YES. just ask Martha stewart.

Southwest, jetblue are leading the way in the move to drive wages down to the lowest possible number. My recent captain's daughter said to him, "Daddy, I don't want to fly for a livin, there's no money in it." she is 16 and i think she knows MORE than I do about life.

 

[WSurf]

Go to mesa get your time and move on. But expect a bunch of crap from other regional airlines. Mainly because of the contract that 87% of them signed off on. Many regionals now have to contend with neg. there contract with management saying, "well mesa does it for this, or there per diem is this." Many regionals have worked hard to make the quaility of life better at this level. (comair, awa, Mesba, PDT, ALG, ACA etc) And many feel that Mesa set them back 10 years signing off the last contract. JO even told his pilots that they needed to get cost lower then the US Airways WO's. So now RJ pilots at Mesa make less money the Dash8 drivers at the WO's.
It's a dog eat dog world.. its sad... The airline industry will never see the golden days of good pay again...

 

[Lear70]

Thanks Otto...

Shadow is right, the odds of the aviation industry ever returning to the heydays of the late 70's and 80's is about the same of breaking the house in Vegas. If you're in this for the money, you're in the WRONG profession! We do this because we love to fly and hate to work... not to mention the gorgeous flight atttendants... wait... wrong thread.

 

[RIDETHELIGHTING]

Wsurf, you must work for WO with Attitude like that.

 

[WSurf]

Yes, I do work for a WO of US Airways and no I don't have an attitude. It's only fact that I speak, you guys remember how pissed you were about Freedumb starting and there work rules and pay for flying a 70 seater.. That feeling that you had remember.... How can a pilot group under cut us in pay and quality of life, how dare these Freedumb boys lower the bar. Well thats how we all feel about you. Its not a attitude, its frustrastion that a pilot group like yours so easily let JO scare them without even turning down the first TA (87% yes)... He said he had no money to give the pilots, but he turns around, buys US Airways Stock, tries to by ACA (thank god for my boys over there), buys Midways left overs... lol, but he can't pay you guys.... Thats whats wrong with this business, when WO's FA's make more money then Mesa Fo's, well never mind... I will let it go, good luck in the profession u have chosen...