Mesa 3.0
08-24-2016, 08:03 PM
#421
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 618
What's wrong with Houston. I assume you are comparing it with Florida? I forgot how great Florida is with all the low wages, poor schools, worst health care in the nation, sex predators in every community and crime and on every corner. Just going to the gas station for milk is like driving in Kabul. Sure Houston has the same crime issues but at least it's confined to certain areas of the city.
08-24-2016, 09:00 PM
#422
Dumb Pilot
Joined APC: Apr 2013
Position: Broke
Posts: 784
What's wrong with Houston. I assume you are comparing it with Florida? I forgot how great Florida is with all the low wages, poor schools, worst health care in the nation, sex predators in every community and crime and on every corner. Just going to the gas station for milk is like driving in Kabul. Sure Houston has the same crime issues but at least it's confined to certain areas of the city.
08-24-2016, 09:15 PM
#423
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Dec 2007
Posts: 618
Lived in both. Houston a 100 times better. You can actually raise a family here vs Florida. Sure go to east Houston and yes its just as bad if not worse. But you have pockets in the city where you can live without looking over your shoulder. Florida down right awful. Do a predator search in any zip code and you will find dozens or hundreds in Florida. I have one in a 5 mile radius.
Orlando got the other half of Katrina. I love Florida its a lot of fun but raising a family there is a scary thought.
Orlando got the other half of Katrina. I love Florida its a lot of fun but raising a family there is a scary thought.
08-25-2016, 06:35 AM
#424
sippin' dat koolaid
Joined APC: Jun 2013
Position: gear slinger
Posts: 982
What's wrong with Houston. I assume you are comparing it with Florida? I forgot how great Florida is with all the low wages, poor schools, worst health care in the nation, sex predators in every community and crime and on every corner. Just going to the gas station for milk is like driving in Kabul. Sure Houston has the same crime issues but at least it's confined to certain areas of the city.
I could always move to Houston but I dread the thought of moving for Mesa. I am junior CA and I would rather just leave if I can UNLESS we opened a domicile in Austin or San Antonio, then I would be all down to go back home.
08-25-2016, 07:21 AM
#425
Covfefe
Joined APC: Jun 2015
Posts: 3,001
I was speaking of the commute. Houston has nice parts and not so nice parts of town just like anywhere else, but the relentless beating it takes from thunderstorms and flooding makes it extremely difficult for commuting purposes. Go home leg on my last two trips has been into IAH with the TAF reading "TSRA 2SM" and not knowing if we are going to make it in, much less make it out on a commute home. I guess I am spoiled because previously I commuted in and out of PHX, which has virtually unlimited CAVUK weather.
I could always move to Houston but I dread the thought of moving for Mesa. I am junior CA and I would rather just leave if I can UNLESS we opened a domicile in Austin or San Antonio, then I would be all down to go back home.
I could always move to Houston but I dread the thought of moving for Mesa. I am junior CA and I would rather just leave if I can UNLESS we opened a domicile in Austin or San Antonio, then I would be all down to go back home.
08-25-2016, 09:14 AM
#426
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2016
Posts: 107
I was hired when every regional was very selective still, including Mesa. It wasn't a single phone interview but multiple ones. I was hired right after the bankruptcy. I never had to justify going to Mesa, the job was a million times better than what I was doing at the time. The situation I am in today I could never predict would happen. Priorites change, needs change. Being locked into a career based on seniority is the worst thing I ever decided to do.
Is it too late to not be "locked into"? My encouragement, look for something additional where you are paid based on your value and merits. There is plenty of downtime with any flying work to build other opportunities. Why not have the best of both worlds?
08-25-2016, 09:20 AM
#427
Line Holder
Joined APC: Dec 2015
Posts: 92
08-25-2016, 10:42 AM
#429
New Hire
Joined APC: Aug 2016
Posts: 3
Lived in both. Houston a 100 times better. You can actually raise a family here vs Florida. Sure go to east Houston and yes its just as bad if not worse. But you have pockets in the city where you can live without looking over your shoulder. Florida down right awful. Do a predator search in any zip code and you will find dozens or hundreds in Florida. I have one in a 5 mile radius.
Orlando got the other half of Katrina. I love Florida its a lot of fun but raising a family there is a scary thought.
Orlando got the other half of Katrina. I love Florida its a lot of fun but raising a family there is a scary thought.
08-25-2016, 12:03 PM
#430
sippin' dat koolaid
Joined APC: Jun 2013
Position: gear slinger
Posts: 982
Thought about that but I'm throwing in my apps with the LCCs first to see if I can make something happen. From what I can tell, very few are moving on from Mesa straight to a legacy. It is happening but not like it is at other carriers, and I have my own presumptions about why it happens to be that way.
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