YV offering $10K bonus!

[propsarebest]

Can you believe it?? Mesa is offering a $10,000 "bonus" if a dispatcher has "UA express experience".


http://www.mesa-air.com/index.asp



NUTS!

 

[RJAA]

I think they have been doing that for a while but I can't wait to read all the stipulations and gotchas for Jonathan to shell out this kind of cash. For pilots it's only $5000 with 2 year commitment or somthing I believe.

 

[boomer71]

That 10k will last you about 6 months, then you are back to making $10.60/hr in PHX!!!!!! I would have to resort to living in my truck for that kind of pay. Have you seen the cost of an apt. over there. Mesa's pay is Criminal!!!!! No wonder thay are always looking for people. Everyone is leaving to work at WAL-MART for better pay HeHeHe!!!!!!

 

[SKC]

Actually, that's an adequate salary if you want to live right around HQ (44th and Van Buren for those that are familiar with PHX). Of course you'd have to share your place with all the crack hos.

The bonus is payable over several years.

 

[boomer71]

Amen Brother!!!!!!! Power to the People!!!!!!! I like my crack hos with no teeth.

 

[dispatchguy]

Just an update

Someone at Mesa just posted at WDFF that their starting pay is now $14.00 an hour

Congrats on the ASH dispatchers on getting at least an average salary, instead of being so deep in the crapper.

 

[brokedash]

Can you believe it?? Mesa is offering a $10,000 "bonus" if a dispatcher has "UA express experience".


http://www.mesa-air.com/index.asp



NUTS!

That bonus is a sham. It was an upper management ploy desinged to attract Skywest dispatchers to come to Mesa after Skywest came literally to Mesa's parking lot and hired about 30 F/Os.

It would be a substantial loss under the old Mesa dispatch pay scale and probaly insn't valid under the new one. In fact one upper mgt type at YV said the entire idea of offering the bonus was more to
P--- off Skywest than shang hi their dispatchers.

 

[dispatchguy]

Has anyone been able to collect under that bonus?

 

[brokedash]

Has anyone been able to collect under that bonus?

Kind of hard to pay one out when no one was hired away from a qualifying airline in the first place.

 

[gooseman13]

They were out to piss off skywest? I thought they were trying to grab me and my fellow Colgan DX bros!!!

 

[homerjdispatch]

They came to SGU and set up at a local hotel....I know one person went, and that was to offer the people doing the interviews SkyWest applications. HA HA HA

 

[WalterSobchak]

They came to SGU and set up at a local hotel....I know one person went, and that was to offer the people doing the interviews SkyWest applications. HA HA HA

Now that, my friends, is hi-larious.

Heard the ad in the SGU paper had a similar design to something SkyWest would put out...with a tiny Mesa logo in the corner.

 

[MONKEY]

That bonus is a sham. It was an upper management ploy desinged to attract Skywest dispatchers to come to Mesa after Skywest came literally to Mesa's parking lot and hired about 30 F/Os.

Did SkyWest hire any of Mesa's dispatchers? It seems like SkyWest is always hiring dispatchers and I'm sure that the pay and qol is MUCH better at SkyWest. Plus SkyWest didn't just lose $80 million in a lawsuit. Which I guess would make pay, qol, and JOB SECURITY better at SkyWest.
I would think that Mesa would be a training ground for both SkyWest pilots and dispatchers.

 

[MONKEY]

Just because I'm bored

I looked up the dispatch payscale:
start 14.70
6 mos 15.26
1 year 16.05
2 year 16.58
3 year 17.47
4 year 18.00
5 year 18.69
6 year 19.06
7 year 19.53
8 year 20.27
9 year 20.95
10 year 21.38
11 year 21.66
12 year 21.86
13 year 22.07
14 year 22.28
15 year 22.50
16 year 22.71
17 year 22.92
1.00 override for trainers
1.50 override for controllers and air trasportation supervisors (ATS)
2.50 override for supervisors.

How does that compare to Mesa's payscale? If they treat their dispatchers like they treat their pilots, why would anyone work there?

 

[XPOO]

Did SkyWest hire any of Mesa's dispatchers?

Wouldn't you be one of the first ones to know?