Originally Posted by
rickair7777
Per the .gov definition, AS is a legacy. Period. The average pilot on the street would probably think of the big three when you say legacy.
But there might be more to the distinction than chest puffery... would you rather an arbitrator compare you to your fellow legacies or to ULCC?
You can argue that AS resembles the others, except for widebodies. And widebodies have their own hourly rates and workrules.
And that leads us right back to where we started.
Alaska is to legacies, as P.F. Chang's is to asian cuisine.
KnockKnock got all twisted over the literal definition, completely dismissing the vernacular definition.