Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Wow. A windfall. Really? Lets see, living and driving to the NYC airports, here's my upcoming windfall: all likely NY base closure. Forced to the next closest bases which are all 2,200nm commutes. Or pack up and move and disrupt family network, connections, friends, relatives. At the same time losing PBS to go to crappy line bidding work rules that have no trip-touch pay protections and add back up 75 hrs. And losing the transcon network to be re-deployed as a up/down west coast regional airline, which will mean less efficient schedules, lower block/day, and having to work a lot more to get the same credit. All for $36/hr more. I would gladly give that back and just keep what I had, but you know we can't change what's happened, and we can't change that one company purchased another company.
36 bucks an hour? I think you went from 189 ish to 258 today. Include 401k and vacation it was more than 36 bucks. Oh plus a CBA overnight. If you don't like Alaska leave. No one is forcing you to stay. No place is perfect, but as they say don't bite the hand that feeds you. Good luck.