Alaska is a great place to work. I'm sorry that PackRatt has taken over this thread and turned it into something less then helpful.
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If you are a pilot who loves the PNW and AK, if you enjoy fun flying to unusual places, if you like working for a profitable company - then join us.

There will always be strange fellows on internet web boards who seems to enjoy making noise for the sake of making it. They give no useful information, only anger, hate and lies. One another board I look at from time to time there is a guy called General Lee who does the same thing. It's best to just ignore them, but I know it is hard to do sometimes.

As an example, a few pages back, PackRatt gave a long rant on Arctic Eagles and the Mudhen. As you can tell by my name, I was honored and blessed to be one of them for many years. I can assure you this - not one thing that PackRatt said was even remotely accurate. He was never there, he never flew the 200, so how can he possibly speak to something that he knows absolutely nothing about? He can slander me and my co-workers all he wants, and frankly, we don't care. But I do take issue with him slandering the death of one of our dearest friends - a death that was tragic and heart breaking and has details that PackRatt knows nothing about.

So, for those who seek to work for Alaska - I'm sorry that you have to wade through pages of crap while trying to find a nugget of helpful information on this thread. Don't believe a word of what ever PackRatt spits out and you will be ahead of the game. If you have specific questions about the company, keep asking and I'm sure several of us will do our best to give you factual information without the "Alaska sucks" attitude.