Originally Posted by
All Bizniz
Even though Alaska is a very healthy company financially, there are countless examples of very healthy companies being bought by other companies as part of a strategic play as I'm sure you know.
AS had been a big fish in a small pond forever, but I think there has been a paradym shift where now the biggest whales in the industry are very much interested in either totally dominating this NW Pacific/California pond or to just drop the mike and eat us whole.
It just a matter of timing, them being content to wait until the right opportunity presents itself.
Well, we have two choices. We can sit around pondering the future of AS’ market share in the NW and West Coast. Creating a new boogeyman every few months and whipping up neat battle cries full of self loathing. OR.....we can try to fix what ails us by making sure our reps hear our concerns, we are well represented during negotiations, and stick to our guns come voting time. I choose the latter. Yes, change is inevitable. If AS gets gobbled up in the future, nothing you or I say will have an impact on that. Do you really want to spend your career stressing over any number of potential outcomes? Not me, I don’t get paid for that and I sure as he11 won’t accept less pay than DL, UA, AA or SW to worry about that.