I honestly only want good for everyone, even newguy. If UA is your best fit, go, I hope you are a 87 CA in record time. Everyone’s career is different, even at the same airline. There are many instances in this industry where 6 mos date of hire, drastically changes ones career. I have been fortunate, I know that, I am thankful for that. My wife loves Alaska Airlines. I have always lived in base, I have had luck and circumstance, I have also worked really hard, I expected no one to pay my way.

I remember as a new hire, thinking there wasn’t a captain I flew with that understood how much harder my life was then theirs. They were living on lake Washington and Samamish in 1,500k homes. I could barely afford my 350k home. I thought, I would never have what they had. I think they paid 500k for those 1,500K houses, I paid 350k for my 350k home😂. With two decades of time passed, my life is much different. Those houses on Lake Washington and Lake Samamish are now probably 8,000k to 22,000k. I don’t live in one of those, so maybe I didn’t keep up. My 4,200k Captain house though is pretty nice and I don’t owe a dime on it. Everyone’s career will be different but that doesn’t mean it isn’t a great one. There is no way for the union to provide career parity at every point in time, it just doesn’t work that way. I am confident someone who lives in an AS base, who is hired hired this fall, will have an incredible career. Will it be the best? Well who’s really is the best, how do we quantify and at what point do we judge.

I fly with FO’s, non of them have ever expressed AS to be the worst job they have ever had. Most say the opposite but all want Scope, industry parity in hourly rate, and a better scheduling package.

I think many on here look back on VX with rose colored glasses and currently at their AS careers, through spectacles of contempt. I could be wrong, I have never walked in your shoes.

Union says SFO is staying open, hopefully they are right. Everything I have seen says the opposite though, sorry.

I said what I saw last summer, I was 100% sure we were furloughing. I never saw the 40 billion coming from the federal government. I was wrong, but I was also telling everyone exactly what was going on.

Good luck to everyone, but don’t act like a child. I am on vacation, the weather is awesome, enjoy. Trust the people you elected in our union, I am confident they will not settle and your career will only get better.