Originally Posted by
Bugaboo
What was the response? Something in the area of...
"We want our pilots to live in domicile so you 80% commuters from Virgin America are f^(%d? We don't care about your quality of life or family, we just want to build the most efficient pairings we can in order to reduce costs."?
Knowing Alaska management, and I guess I don't blame them, that would be pretty close?
I’m pretty sure you can build productive commutable trips. It’s all about marketing. If a plane sits somewhere for a lengthy period then that’s not productive for either the plane or the crews. Our guys use to tell marketing that certain flight times wouldn’t work because it wasn’t productive. Saying you can’t build commutable lines is just an excuse. They want you living in base so you don’t use the commuter clause trying to get to work. There’s the real truth.