-We are cutting routes and frequency while other airlines are rapidly increasing out put.

-we have a management team who believes the right course of action is to provide a far inferior product while other airlines race to provide better amenities

-we have a management team who is too short sighted to see what's on the horizon (no pun intended) in terms of pilot recruitment and detainment (auto corrected from retention but detainment is actually more suitable.)

-most new flying is being given away hand over foot to regional carriers while we have nothing in place to protect our jobs and trust our product to be flown largely by an external non controllable entity

-a far inferior profit sharing plan.. and a joke of a monthly incentive plan that in order to trigger a payout would have to hit unattainable metrics in the airports that are our hubs

-a management team who somehow does not see that they are losing the California battle and quickly. Virgin customer numbers are down and will
continue to plummet because our product has gone belly up since as took over. Nothing is ever fixed, catering has been slashed, and metics are so important that we strive for on time more than getting people onboard... alaska will not "bear the fruits of this merger" if it does not change course quickly, all of our customers are going to JetBlue, not AS. That's because alaska is a boring old regional airline that killed off virgin, people do not know Alaska airlines exists, or now that virgin is going away are going back to Expedia and becoming fare shoppers again.


EA CO AS, maybe you're right about this not being a rudderless ship... I think this ship very much has a rudder... a rudder being steered by a blind skipper that's too stupid to admit he can no longer see and is driving the ship right into a rock jagged shore. Hope you have a life raft, because a much larger percentage of this pilot group than you think has applications out to other (much better) legacy carriers in attempts to secure our own life rafts. The sooner that you and management realize that without us, the company will crumble (faster than it already is), then the sooner you can steer the ship away from shore.
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