Mesa Air Travel Benefits

**raiders** · 19-Dec-2011, 01:07 AM

Dose anyone know Mesa Air Group travel benefits and when do they start when you are hired?

joanchiu · 30-Dec-2011, 10:18 AM

Are spouses, eligible dependent children, and parents of employees may eligible as well for flight benefits?

**SKC** · 13-Jan-2012, 10:13 PM

As a former Mesa employee, travel benefits began 6 months after employment began. Spouses, eligible dependents and parents of the employee were eligible for flight benefits.

As a disclaimer, this was true as of my last day in Aug 98. So, it has been quite a few years since then, so I would certainly verify that information if possible with a current employee.

**spongebue** · 13-Jan-2012, 11:21 PM

I work for another United Express carrier, and our benefits started 2 weeks after employment began for United flights. I think US Airways is right away, or probably close to it. And yes, children, spouse, and parents get benefits. Parents have to pay a $25 service charge with US Airways for each segment, and enrolled friends (person of your choosing for single employees) will run into some taxes. The IRS sees that as a taxable benefit, so a value is assigned to each flight (depends on a lot of things) and while you don't get charged that, your taxes are based on wage + value of flights taken by enrolled friend, rather than just your wage. So $100 in imputed income as it's called could lead to $30 less in your paycheck because of taxes.