Originally Posted by Parkedplane

This doesn’t make sense. If Alaska is going towards a Boeing heavy fleet, why move junior pilots over to the 737, train them, get them type ratings and then fire them? They could just open up vacancies on the captain’s side if they wanted. They could displace captains from either fleet into any other base. It looks like they are opening up vacancies because they are getting rid of the buses and planning on attaining more 737s.