[P]In a related US Airways'' note, the airline last week set today (Tuesday) as a deadline for Mesa Air Group to put up or shut up in terms of their compliance with the US Airways'' Jets for Jobs program.[/P]
[P]In the letter, dated Jan. 16, from US Airways'' VP of corporate development, Bruce Ashby, to Mesa President Mike Lotz, Ashby details how US Airways had published flight schedules in January that included additional aircraft Mesa had been slated to fly for the airline. US Airways had anticipated three new aircraft flown by Mesa in January, and had also revised the January through March aircraft delivery schedule to January through May.[/P]
[P]On Thursday, Jan. 2, the letter says that Mesa CEO Jonathan Ornstein advised US Airways that Mesa would likely not be in compliance with the Jets for Jobs protocol for the flight schedule, which was slated to begin Jan. 5.[/P]
[P]There was a good reason for this. Management at Mesa did not, and still does not, as I write this, have an agreement with its pilots over the Jets for Jobs issue -- even though Mesa has known since last August that the Jets for Jobs protocol was a necessary part of the additional flying at US Airways it had been awarded.[/P]
[P]Per Ornstein''s comments on Jan. 2, US Airways agreed to continue to work with Mesa, while the airline continued in negotiations with its pilots over the Jets for Jobs issue.[/P]
[P]However, in last Thursday''s letter, Ashby basically advises Mesa that their time is up. Ashby tells Mesa that it has to provide US Airways written assurances no later than today, Jan. 21, that Mesa is going to comply with the Jets for Jobs protocol in regard to future additional aircraft deployment per their contract. If not, as the letter states, US Airways reserves all rights and remedies available to it.[BR][BR]This is from another website![/P]