Mesa 3.0
11-04-2016, 01:19 PM
#1581
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2016
Posts: 470
Who owns your 900s?
11-04-2016, 01:58 PM
#1582
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Joined APC: May 2015
Posts: 132
11-05-2016, 08:39 AM
#1584
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 44
After being doing some research on various regional airlines, if someone can give me a good brief summary on how things are at Mesa and what can a new hire expect. I have not made a decision yet but if i do come, i would prefer the CRJ fleet for a IAD base as I am on the east coast. How easy or hard is it to get crj iad out of training. How long is reserve, how is the interview process, training environment and whom can we contact to get a interview setup. Anything anyone can provide with HONESTY as we all know no airline is perfect , but its what we can get out of it for the future. If someone can post or PM me with the info. Thank you.
11-05-2016, 08:43 AM
#1585
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2011
Posts: 688
After being doing some research on various regional airlines, if someone can give me a good brief summary on how things are at Mesa and what can a new hire expect. I have not made a decision yet but if i do come, i would prefer the CRJ fleet for a IAD base as I am on the east coast. How easy or hard is it to get crj iad out of training. How long is reserve, how is the interview process, training environment and whom can we contact to get a interview setup. Anything anyone can provide with HONESTY as we all know no airline is perfect , but its what we can get out of it for the future. If someone can post or PM me with the info. Thank you.
Or you could just read day the last down pages on here and get the answers yourself instead of expecting it to be handed to you with no work.
11-05-2016, 09:14 AM
#1586
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2015
Posts: 580
After being doing some research on various regional airlines, if someone can give me a good brief summary on how things are at Mesa and what can a new hire expect. I have not made a decision yet but if i do come, i would prefer the CRJ fleet for a IAD base as I am on the east coast. How easy or hard is it to get crj iad out of training. How long is reserve, how is the interview process, training environment and whom can we contact to get a interview setup. Anything anyone can provide with HONESTY as we all know no airline is perfect , but its what we can get out of it for the future. If someone can post or PM me with the info. Thank you.
Are you looking for someone to make the decision for you? Spend at least 15 minutes deciding on your career and you'll see Mesa is not the place for any new hire right now.
You come across as someone who can't make up their own mind. Let me help you. Don't come to Mesa.
You want East coast? Here you go!
Endeavor
Piedmont
Silver
PSA
And i'm sure i am forgetting some others.
I apologize for my harshness but you have to be joking or trolling if you honestly think of coming to Mesa.
11-05-2016, 10:19 AM
#1587
Living the Dream
Joined APC: Sep 2013
Posts: 1,795
Your name makes me wonder if you're possibly trolling, but I'll give you the benefit of the doubt. Click on any random page of this thread and read about why you shouldn't come here. You'd be doing yourself a huge disservice. Our pay is literally a third of what you'd make at Endeavor, PSA, Piedmont, or Envoy. I used to recommend it for PHX people, but with how little movement there's been in recent months I'm starting to wonder if a new FO would ever get there. I half suspect we'll see downgrades in the next year (Captains demoted back to First Officer because of staffing problems). If that happened, it's bad news for everyone, including the new FO's who'd never get off reserve. To answer your other question, you'd probably go to Houston or Dallas, but there are better options in each.
I saw you posted on the Air Whiskey thread too. I don't know anyone who'd have a negative thing to say about the airline, but unfortunately their future is also uncertain after 2018. Their pilot attrition has picked up accordingly and that's not a good thing.
I recommend Endeavor or one of AA's wholly owned's (Envoy/Piedmont/PSA). Your pay will be significantly more and the 3 WO's have a flow (albeit 6 years optimistically) to American Airlines. If you want a Southern base, maybe Envoy DFW.
Compass and SkyWest wouldn't be bad choices either.
I saw you posted on the Air Whiskey thread too. I don't know anyone who'd have a negative thing to say about the airline, but unfortunately their future is also uncertain after 2018. Their pilot attrition has picked up accordingly and that's not a good thing.
I recommend Endeavor or one of AA's wholly owned's (Envoy/Piedmont/PSA). Your pay will be significantly more and the 3 WO's have a flow (albeit 6 years optimistically) to American Airlines. If you want a Southern base, maybe Envoy DFW.
Compass and SkyWest wouldn't be bad choices either.
11-05-2016, 10:36 AM
#1588
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jun 2014
Posts: 44
Well first of all yes I can read. And yes i know what has been posted in the previous pages, and its all the same typical regional lifer posts who are complaining and whining instead of using the experience and moving on to bigger and better things, now if some dont have the ability or previous history that prevents them in doing so then yes, then i wont blame you cause this is where you will be in your life, bashing on APC pretty much. And yes i do have options with other carriers which I am considering but just wanted to see based on where i want to go for a career overseas, which jet type would be beneficial for my long term needs eventually.
11-05-2016, 11:28 AM
#1589
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2012
Position: CRJ FO
Posts: 4,601
Well first of all yes I can read. And yes i know what has been posted in the previous pages, and its all the same typical regional lifer posts who are complaining and whining instead of using the experience and moving on to bigger and better things, now if some dont have the ability or previous history that prevents them in doing so then yes, then i wont blame you cause this is where you will be in your life, bashing on APC pretty much. And yes i do have options with other carriers which I am considering but just wanted to see based on where i want to go for a career overseas, which jet type would be beneficial for my long term needs eventually.
And just out of curiosity, how far away are you from your minimum required time to work for an airline? And why overseas? Many pilots who have worked overseas during the last decade are looking to return to the US to work. Our wages and quality of life are far outpacing foreign carriers.
11-05-2016, 12:05 PM
#1590
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2015
Posts: 634
Well first of all yes I can read. And yes i know what has been posted in the previous pages, and its all the same typical regional lifer posts who are complaining and whining instead of using the experience and moving on to bigger and better things, now if some dont have the ability or previous history that prevents them in doing so then yes, then i wont blame you cause this is where you will be in your life, bashing on APC pretty much. And yes i do have options with other carriers which I am considering but just wanted to see based on where i want to go for a career overseas, which jet type would be beneficial for my long term needs eventually.
Also, i would do a little research on pprune about working for a foreign carrier. Very few are as good as an American major airline. If you go to any wholly owned regional (Endeavor, Commutair, PSA, Piedmont, or Envoy) today, you can expect to be at the code share legacy within a very reasonable amount of time while earning far more than a Mesa pilot currently does.
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