Mesa Air files Chapter 11

[manniax]

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/bulletin/80688267.html

I guess this isn't a big shocker or anything since they'd been struggling for a while. However, if anyone is just finishing school, looking for places to apply to, I'd go ahead and cross Mesa off your list for the forseeable future. Hopefully the airline does survive, although speaking as a former employee, I also hope a new management team is brought in during the restructuring.

 

[stickks]

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/bulletin/80688267.html

I guess this isn't a big shocker or anything since they'd been struggling for a while. However, if anyone is just finishing school, looking for places to apply to, I'd go ahead and cross Mesa off your list for the forseeable future. Hopefully the airline does survive, although speaking as a former employee, I also hope a new management team is brought in during the restructuring.

Definately a new management team. Not a well run company at all. The training was a complete joke. Tons of planes that had way to many problems, and they didnt want to fix them.

 

[mission_aviation]

Definately a new management team. Not a well run company at all. The training was a complete joke. Tons of planes that had way to many problems, and they didnt want to fix them.

Any word from the 7th floor as to whether you guys will be affected by this? Reports say that theres over half of Mesa's fleet grounded with 25 scheduled for retirement.

 

[mission_aviation]

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/bulletin/80688267.html

I guess this isn't a big shocker or anything since they'd been struggling for a while. However, if anyone is just finishing school, looking for places to apply to, I'd go ahead and cross Mesa off your list for the forseeable future. Hopefully the airline does survive, although speaking as a former employee, I also hope a new management team is brought in during the restructuring.

So thats why their hangar looks like a parking lot. Normally there was on average 1-3 planes parked for maintenance. Nowadays theres 5-7 at a time.

 

[stickks]

Any word from the 7th floor as to whether you guys will be affected by this? Reports say that theres over half of Mesa's fleet grounded with 25 scheduled for retirement.

Dude, I allready left. I got furloughed 3 weeks ago. I am back in Dallas. I got a job with Pinnacle, which I am excited about. Seems like a good place. I am glad I got some experience at Mesa, but it was kinda a joke working there. There is zero loyalty at that place. I worked my ass off, never missed a day, was never late and I was let go because Im new. Anyways, going to a better company, better people. Am I alittle bitter? Yes. I moved my ass halfway across the country to work there. This was all going down even before I started there. Screw them.

 

[ljg]

Am I alittle bitter? Yes.

You're kidding.

 

[jynxyjoe]

Dude, I allready left. I got furloughed 3 weeks ago. I am back in Dallas. I got a job with Pinnacle, which I am excited about. Seems like a good place. I am glad I got some experience at Mesa, but it was kinda a joke working there. There is zero loyalty at that place. I worked my ass off, never missed a day, was never late and I was let go because Im new. Anyways, going to a better company, better people. Am I alittle bitter? Yes. I moved my ass halfway across the country to work there. This was all going down even before I started there. Screw them.

I know one of the Colgan dispatchers over there. Chris, I think you all are in the same building.

 

[subpilot]

I would expect the new guy to be let go first too if they were laying people off. Seems the most fair as compared to having a guy/gal with 10 years seniority be let go but the new guy who just got hired gets to stay on. That would encourage/enable companies to trim the payroll sheets.

 

[stickks]

You're kidding.

Hey, I can be any way I want. It seems like it was all a blur to me. I know plenty of people at Mesa that arent happy, but they cant do anything cause they all have lives in PHX. I am glad I was proactive and got out. Too many other good opportunities out there to pass up.

 

[manniax]

Hey, I can be any way I want. It seems like it was all a blur to me. I know plenty of people at Mesa that arent happy, but they cant do anything cause they all have lives in PHX. I am glad I was proactive and got out. Too many other good opportunities out there to pass up.

Hey, I'd be bitter too, especially if they new that the contract loss was imminent when they hired you...but new guys are ALWAYS the first ones to be let go when furloughs come in aviation. (Well, I won't say there has never been an exception to that rule, but it's damn rare.) Anyhow, I think you were wise to leave when you did...even if no furlough had been imminent. I don't know if Mesa is going to make it through this one, and if they do shut down, the amount of seniority anyone holds there will be irrelevant...

 

[ljg]

Hey, I'd be bitter too, especially if they new that the contract loss was imminent when they hired you...but new guys are ALWAYS the first ones to be let go when furloughs come in aviation. (Well, I won't say there has never been an exception to that rule, but it's damn rare.) Anyhow, I think you were wise to leave when you did...even if no furlough had been imminent. I don't know if Mesa is going to make it through this one, and if they do shut down, the amount of seniority anyone holds there will be irrelevant...

I've seen furloughs/layoffs out of seniority with pilots up at an operator at YIP, but that was special circumstances. Very much the exception, and not the rule.