Originally Posted by
OTZeagle1
Are you kidding me? Have you heard the rhetoric coming from the VX side for the last 4 years? It has been nauseating on this board, I hear it almost every time I run into a guy wearing black pants, sizing me up, publicly dressing down any and all things Alaska. I even get to listen to it in the sim. 99% of it is venomous nonsense, coming from a puffed up chest and a arrogant stance of 100% cluelessness. It’s all hyperbole and witchcraft, based loosely on some peyote induced dream. I fly with Boeing guys, I can tell you there is a canyon between us. Almost everything you guys ever say is how bad LAS pilots suck and how much Alaska sucks. You guys were going to burn this place down, coming in hot, you guys were blessed with all the answers. Even going so far as to train up all the new guys to hate this place, burn baby burn. Well guess what, it blew up in your face. I have a lot of friends in the 73, I know everybody laugh, not one of them thinks highly of the Airbus guys, most all of you come off as prats, peculiar creatures we desperately try to avoid, this I promise. Guys snicker when they see you from my side, they starting wearing hats, so they could differentiate. If the dudes I know are wearing hats, there is definitely a problem. Don’t worry though, no LVX pilots that hate this place so much will be furloughed. You are all safe. Some lucky dudes that actually wanted to work for this company get to take the fall!
Assuming you are actually a pilot for a second, and not a plant, this has been the opposite of my experience moving from SFO based to SEA based. If you disregard the 1% from each side, everyone else is far more the same than different. We know our contract is weak, we want better schedules, better pay, real scope, and so on. The pants are irrelevant. Aside from one rather spirited conversation from a former union guy who got a little huffy when I told him my QOL experience was objectively much better sitting reserve at VX compared to reserve at AS, there has been zero tension. (After hearing his perspective, I'm glad it was former union guy). We go have a beer on the layover and shoot the sh** same as when I was on the bus. All of my friends who switched express similar sentiments, it's all good. If AS is really going to go single fleet, I wish they would hurry up and get it over with. The sooner we all work together, the sooner those silly misconceptions about the angry 800 will fall away. The 1% will always be the 1%, but the rest of us can put that stupid and poorly founded notion behind us.