Originally Posted by Pogey Bait

Dear Dude,

The reason these “flow” programs are set up is to maintain a pipeline of cheap labor supplied by a very long stick, and shiny carrot. If I was a betting man I would go to anywhere besides Horizon if you truly want to end up at Alaska. Right now the economy is on the up tick and when the party stops you are going to get caught with your pants down and stuck at Horizon. AAG will not been pulling from their cheap labor when this happens due to an economic situation or due to the dreaded “pilot shortage”.

I would not sell your self short by only having Alaska in your sights. You gotta barf everywhere and see how it shakes out. If you truly want to be on the upper left half of the country, bedsides Alaska there is a new player in town call Delta Air Lines. Delta Air Lines appreciates their fellow airplane drivers and likes to pay them lots of money to do so. Delta Air Lines has the most diverse make up of sky bound people movers in the industry as well. However if you really got a hard on to fly a Boeing 737 in both the small version and the extended version for the rest of your days, then Alaska might be the place to be. Also offered at Alaska is subpar wages and a management team that likes you to know that you are “number 5”. I don’t know about your math but mine tells me 1 is better than 5.

Maybe you can tell through the lack of response to your questions that you are climbing up the wrong tree. Get some more hours at Skywest and the rest of your military hours are truly appreciated by any of the larger jet driver companies out there.

Good luck Dude!