Wall Street Journal rips into Mesa

[Jack Mehoff]

Mesa, JO, and Lotz all SUCK!

 

[milky]

Why do idiots work for Mesa if they suck so badly? You know why airlines overwork you and don't pay you enough? You let them. If airline pilots weren't such whores for crappy jobs, the work rules and pay in this industry would become so much better. What incentive does a company have to treat its labor better if it has a never-ending supply of idiots beating down the door to take a job if it comes open?

 

[pdub20s]

What incentive does a company have to treat its labor better if it has a never-ending supply of idiots beating down the door to take a job if it comes open?

..And they leave 3 months after being online for a better paying regional FO job

 

[acaTerry]

Why do idiots work for Mesa if they suck so badly? You know why airlines overwork you and don't pay you enough? You let them. If airline pilots weren't such w************************* for crappy jobs, the work rules and pay in this industry would become so much better. What incentive does a company have to treat its labor better if it has a never-ending supply of idiots beating down the door to take a job if it comes open?

This guy only has 100 hours and he already "gets it"! Do you come from an airline family or are you just that intuitive (no this is not sarcasm). I made the same observation during the PFT days and decided I'd just instruct a bit longer. It took another year, but it saved me $10,000 in PFT fees I never had to pay and the hourly rate went up 2 bucks in the meantime. I got onboard at ACA and all the PFT guys were lecturing me for the "raise" I got by not having to PFT and that's not fair to them, etc. Hey man, That was their bed, they made it, not me. All I did was refuse to PFT and it worked out fine. It seems there were a lot of guys like me because PFT was relatively short lived. And in the end, guess what? That "seniority scare speech" that all those PFT places and airline pilot mills sell you...I still made CA fairly quick and now have a good job at a frac. See, sometimes instant gratifcation is not the smart thing.
It's so refreshing to see someone who sees things as they are....now Milky, get ready for all the flame.