Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Serious question: how do you get from here to there?
Well if I were King...I'd have a merger of lists that greatly favored Alaska pilots, and would aim pay for the airframe to be somewhere between what Horizon has now and our blended 737 rates, comparable to jetBlue's 190 deal. A junior airframe on property works for everybody, and I've never understood the senior guys' aversion to smaller jets. Not sure of the mechanisms that would set that in motion, but as a realist I understand the gross lack of appetite on both sides of the equation. It may be a pipe-dream, but one that would strengthen our collective bargaining power and career progression in the long-run.