This is a great question.

- I was at a regional airline, so any upward move was a significant improvement.

- PNW guy, being based near family is important to me.

- I had a good number of contacts who are Alaska pilots, I knew who they tended to hire, so I thought it was more easily attainable than the others.

- I was (am) fairly low time. 3.1K total basically zero TPIC at the interview. Based on this and the above, I viewed it as my most realistic option. My reasoning was that being hired here young was better than languishing at the regional for my 30's while hoping DAL calls. Based on my logbook, that was going to take a while.