Originally Posted by
fly4booz
I’m not upset with the purchase of VX. None of us had any control. I just don’t agree with how the SLI is playing out. Alaska and VX are not in the same league by any standard and obviously, you don’t like this reality. Every one of my peers knew that VX wasn’t a career airline. I guess you never got the intel. Looks like you’re an angry man but I sympathize with your situation due to your base closure. I really don’t have a dog in this fight anymore and realize that no one can change your views on anything. Hopefully DAL or B6 will pick you up. I hear JFK base goes very junior.
I’m not angry, just disapppinted how they’re running things but I can’t change any of that.
What are you so disappointed about the SLI proposal? You knew Virgin wasn’t a career airline? That’s nice, probably the same way I never applied to a Pacific Northwest regional type flying called Alaska. Anyway, Alaska’s proposal pretty much puts the first VX guy in the 2000 DOH range, and thats the #1 guy hired in Dec 2006. What else are you expecting? You wanted a true DOH merger? That’s not how it works. It looks like you thought you worked for a real legacy airline buying a small regional airline and expected a staple job. The SLI is headed to arbitration just like pretty much all the others have for the past 20 years for ALPA-ALPA carriers.