Originally Posted by Benito

Basically anyone that's looking at AS as their next career move better be sure to do their due diligence. More than half of this pilot group is unhappy. We are living with an outdated contract that reads as if it were written by a half wit from the 70's. The only good thing in it is long term disability and that is the ONLY thing giving most of us hope, that we develop a medical condition that prevents us from attaining a medical and no longer have to eat this AS excrement sandwich.
We have been in section 6 negotiations since our extended contract expired May of last year. Our negotiating committee is getting nowhere and realistically a new contract will not happen for another 5 plus years (because it doesn't benefit the company to get rid of the present contract so they are using classic stall tactics).
The current CBA is unacceptable by any self respecting airline pilots standards. AS is probably the only airline in the WORLD where the flight attendants have a better contract than the pilots, they even get more per diem than us. It truly is a travesty.
If you're still convincing yourself because you live in the PNW and the lure of driving to work is suckering you in STOP and slap yourself, is this why you became an airline pilot? To end your career flying a 737? The regional jet of the 1960's. A plane that has just enough space in the cockpit for your luggage, where it's so loud you have to wear a headset the entire flight and the only place you can stretch if you're unfortunate to be on a transcon is the forward galley.
YOU can do better than this.