Originally Posted by
mike734
The Silver Bullet was the Cheif Pilot's gig. We have a new CP these days. He has only been in office a month or two so he's just getting around to making it his own. I have not heard, but I wouldn't be surprised if he set up some sort of referral system.
We are going to hire quite a few pilots over the next few years. Right now it's locals, friends and family, Horizon pilots etc. it won't be long before they have to start looking a little farther afield. if you want to work here, keep up the letters and applications. When I got interviewed many years ago they had every scrap of paper I had ever sent them in my file. Alaska has a long memory.
you say locals... but who's to say Horizon or even other regional carries that carry for Alaska are crewed by pilots living in the Pacific Northwest? I live right near PDX, put in my app, have very strong qualifications but I've not heard anything. I will say that I have no inside recs, but then I have to wonder why that should even matter? The whole inside rec thing has to go the way of nepotism.. it's frankly wrong and truly discriminatory.. it should be about experience and about FAA training records and other records... a recommendation should be gravy, not the main thing that gets you in.. frankly it's quite frustrating.