Originally Posted by
sidestep
No, not at all, but since you are senior to me, please consider it.
Most pilots who commute to HAL either:
-used to be based in SEA/SFO/LAX with HAL and had a reasonable expectation to believe those bases would remain open.
Or
-were hired between '08-'12 when HAL was pretty much the only airline in the country hiring and a commute was worth getting out of the regionals.
Equipment and seat-locks aside, obviously commuting to Hawaiian is possible. My point is - with most majors hiring, why would you want to indefinitely commute 5+ hours to an airline with only a single base in a place you don't want to be?
my 3 closest friends at UAL, DAL and AA, all three don't live at their base... one has a two leg commute east coast.
West Coast on the 330 to HNL is the easiest commute i've ever done... period.
The only problem we have at HAL now (and it affects locals as well) is our schedule sucks, and our lack of meaningful trip rig means we waste a lot of time "at work" not getting paid.. We need to fix that big time in Contract 2015