Originally Posted by
Mea25000
I know ALPA really wants us to get this right. Although there is no way it will be perfect there are many ways to protect quality of life and base position. I personally would be fine with straight relative seniority as long as the SEA and PDX base position list were protected with date of hire.
I am confident that when this is all said and done SFO BPL will not have changed and equally confident BPL in PDX,SEA,ANC,and LAX will stay intact going forward. Alpa really wants to protect the careers we expected to have prior to the merger. If you are at Alaska wanting some super seniority in SFO that is not going to happen. If you are a senior 320 CA expecting to transfer to SEA and hold AUS turns, you also are going to be very disappointed. To be honest it’s what we all should want, the career we expected uninhabited by this merger. I am very hopeful we will get there.
AK mgmt keeps talking about “optimizing” aircraft for North/South and Transcon flights. Whats to keep them from opening an Airbus base is SEA and/or a 737 base in SFO in order to make that happen? They keep hinting that the Airbus is a better N/S aircraft and the 737 is better for Transcons. Or would this work by flowing crews in and out of domiciles?
Alaska wont add on a 2nd leg after a east/west transcon right?