CaptKrunch

Just as long as you know that would be like putting money in a slot machine. High risk and high reward. Make sure you can loose that money though, every site I have seen is rating Mesa a a Hold or Sell. No one is saying to buy it.

DublinFlyer

Alright, I work for Mesa as an RJ F/O. Let me say a few things.

I know why people say Mesa has dragged the industry down, and I know why people don't like management, and disrespect the pilots. BUT - would you rather see us turn the place around or just go out of business. If I were on the outside looking in, I'd want to see 1,300 pilots (4,500 total employees about) keep their jobs and make the company better. I can tell you in the last year and a half, IT IS A DIFFERENT COMPANY. People are actually enjoying going to work now, and it's continuing to move ahead. I'm very excited about the changes that are happening. I think we are well on our way to becoming a more respectable carrier. I work my butt off to make this a better place, and I know so many other people at this company that are in the same boat. We just aren't sitting around getting beaten up and taking it up the butt - we are actively working to enhance our quality of life in many ways.

As far as the financial status - I have no idea how much cash we have in the bank. I don't even know if I WANT to know. I don't understand a lot of that stuff, so I'd probably just be more confused than I already am. What I AM trying to do is stay positive, and just do my job as well as I can, make my passengers as happy as I can, and help my crew out as much as I can.

I attended the Delta lawsuit in Atlanta a couple of weeks ago. I feel VERY positive about the outcome of that trial - and I expect we will win it. No decision has been reached however and we are still waiting for the ruling. The court had 2 weeks to a month to make a ruling.

That's about it right now. I just wish people would stop degrading us and stop to support us. Just a few words of encouragement would be nice. Wishing people out of a job just makes people look trashy - and doesn't say much about someone. I think we'll survive. There are a lot of committed people at my company that have the drive to succeed, and I'm one of them.

mach946

Well that dog in your pic looks rabid! Ive seen dogs like that take a mans leg off with just one bite!

mach946

I heard Ameriflight is going to buy MESA

DublinFlyer

lmao.... don't start...

tzadik

will mesa's death change anything? no... it will just make a lot of people happy for about an hour.

if more time was spent sticking together and helping one another like i've seen on previous threads then perhaps the revolution can begin. until then we'll just continue blaming everyone else for the fact that chicken tenders and a pint at yet another faceless crowe plaza is concidered a financial hardship.

NightHawk

that's the problem with you people. You think that all of the flying is going to get snatched up by other regionals and it will be a win win situation. WRONG. All of the major carriers would jump at the chance to reduce flying with no reprocutions. I'm sure skywest would get some flying as well as some others, but much of it will be lost due to this economic environment. The long term reality will be more pilots on the street desperate for jobs and managements with more power than ever. The more jobs that are open, the more power we have. Less jobs= less power for us.

mach946

It's true! Once Ameriflight buys MESA they will convert all the DASH 8's, ERJ's, and CRJ's into freighters to help out the banks. We will be flying post dated checks on closed accounts for the banking industy....it's all part of the economic stimulus package.!!!

DublinFlyer

Right. That was my point in my long reply the other day in the Mesa 6 cent stock thread. Lets NOT focus on how much people want my company, my livelihood and my lifeline to die - and focus more on how we can become united, stand up for each other, learn as much as we can, be the best pilots we can - and get this darn bar raised and make our industry what it ought to be. Come on guys!!!!!!

Very true - thank you for pointing this out.

lmao you're such a turd... i love it.

CaptKrunch

I think YOUR wrong. The flying done by Mesa for both US Airways and for United would have to be covered. Mesa does ALL the flying for Airways on the West Coast. No matter how dumb people think Doug is he is not going to NOT fly RJ's on the west coast. On the United side they do quite a bit of 200 and 700 traffic meaning either Skywest of GoJet would have to pick up the slack. The fact is a regional the size of Mesa can't disappear without leaving a sizable void even in today's economy.