Originally Posted by
MinRest
It helps if you are buying assets. If WN doesn’t plan on growing as big as AS is, you sell off what you don’t want.
There are two ways of getting pilots right now. 1 is making them from scratch. 2 is buying them. The smart airlines are going to solve these long term problems by buying companies and absorbing pilots.
AS is now the smallest major in the country aside from Sun Country. Where are we going to get pilots?
Does size really matter?
Management takes pride in AS being known as the little airline that could, consistently punching above its weight, and being rewarded by Wall Street in the process.
By combining the brand loyalty up in the PNW, with the "Alaska discount", as well as a sprinkling of various other special ingredients, the "secret sauce" should ensure their continued success, whales now circling in their pond be damned.