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Old 08-02-2017 | 10:14 PM
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This perfectly illustrates the biggest problem Alaska Airlines has going forward. Everyone in senior management rose through the ranks during the period when controlling costs was the only datum a manager was measured by. Now, 10 years later, we have an entirely different marketplace and we have a senior management team that is unable to chart a course through this new landscape. Giving hotels to all new hires is an absolute no-brainer, but this is a company that puts every expenditure under a microscope. This is a company where folks in flight ops wanted to make laminated deicing reference cards and put them in every airplane, about 150 or so. Their request got kicked back because they requested the cards be printed in color to make them easier to interpret. Management made them document that the added expense was necessary. That's pretty much all you need to know about Alaska.
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