Factually, American did not fire Mesa. Mesa and American agreed to end the contract early as Mesa was suffering a pilot shortage, American would not help them financially to fix the issues. On top of that, Mesa also suffered financial losses from the constant maintenance issue with the CR9. American basically did not help Mesa at all during covid and United rescued Mesa with paying them so much money and helped create them a program for new pilots to prevent a further shortage. American and Mesa both had separate excuse statements to why the breakup had to happen and United took over all the operations which removed some E175 aircrafts Mesa also operated to allow the CR9 to fly. SO, did mesa lose a lot of money because of this? Yes. HOWEVER, they have an amazing partner to fly for. Both of the CEO are friends and I believe they will acquire Mesa as wholly owned in the future which will boost Mesa to grow even more as being the number one United Express operator. AND with the AA seats being involved, the transition allowed Mesa to continue using the seats as long as American Airlines brand was completely removed from all the CR9 aircrafts. I think once they officially settle in with United, they will begin to transition the aircrafts into the UAX livery and redo the interiors. Other than that, they are beginning to thrive off of United as they are now in Denver which Skywest did not like because it took flying away from them.
Funny thing about the "horrible operational performance". American did things to subvert the contract. Mesa had 60 airplanes on the AA contract. American decided to remove over 20 airplanes (mostly the newer refurbished airplanes) from Mesa. When they removed the airplanes, they gave Mesa MORE flying, during the COVID period when most regionals were not able to staff flights. So they took away the newer airplanes but made Mesa use the older airplanes that have more issues, they gave Mesa more flying, when even American and the other AA regionals weren't meeting their quotas, then blamed Mesa for poor performance. American cancelled flights months in advance and then blamed weather, while making the metrics for Mesa look worse. There was also an issue between Mesa and Envoy ramp. Envoy was notorious for causing a lot of late arrivals and departures for Mesa out of the DFW base. 45 minutes to park at the gate at minimum. Flights scheduled to arrive before 6 am, but Envoy ramp not starting work until after 6 am.
Factually, American did not fire Mesa. Mesa and American agreed to end the contract early as Mesa was suffering a pilot shortage, American would not help them financially to fix the issues. On top of that, Mesa also suffered financial losses from the constant maintenance issue with the CR9. American basically did not help Mesa at all during covid and United rescued Mesa with paying them so much money and helped create them a program for new pilots to prevent a further shortage. American and Mesa both had separate excuse statements to why the breakup had to happen and United took over all the operations which removed some E175 aircrafts Mesa also operated to allow the CR9 to fly. SO, did mesa lose a lot of money because of this? Yes. HOWEVER, they have an amazing partner to fly for. Both of the CEO are friends and I believe they will acquire Mesa as wholly owned in the future which will boost Mesa to grow even more as being the number one United Express operator. AND with the AA seats being involved, the transition allowed Mesa to continue using the seats as long as American Airlines brand was completely removed from all the CR9 aircrafts. I think once they officially settle in with United, they will begin to transition the aircrafts into the UAX livery and redo the interiors. Other than that, they are beginning to thrive off of United as they are now in Denver which Skywest did not like because it took flying away from them.
Ummm just so you know i wasnt very clear in the video about what the route was! This flight went from Houston, Texas to Dallas, Texas
just drive to dallas
Well since I was connecting it was easier just to book through dallas. If I had flown in the day before then I would have driven!
Mesa switched airlines on their CRJs because American fired them for their horrible operational performance
Ok thanks for clarifying that!
Funny thing about the "horrible operational performance". American did things to subvert the contract. Mesa had 60 airplanes on the AA contract. American decided to remove over 20 airplanes (mostly the newer refurbished airplanes) from Mesa. When they removed the airplanes, they gave Mesa MORE flying, during the COVID period when most regionals were not able to staff flights.
So they took away the newer airplanes but made Mesa use the older airplanes that have more issues, they gave Mesa more flying, when even American and the other AA regionals weren't meeting their quotas, then blamed Mesa for poor performance. American cancelled flights months in advance and then blamed weather, while making the metrics for Mesa look worse.
There was also an issue between Mesa and Envoy ramp. Envoy was notorious for causing a lot of late arrivals and departures for Mesa out of the DFW base. 45 minutes to park at the gate at minimum. Flights scheduled to arrive before 6 am, but Envoy ramp not starting work until after 6 am.