Originally Posted by 9mikemike

Others have said it……Alaska Airlines has always deferred/delayed orders, reduced schedules etc. to balance staffing needs against competitive pressures. They have an impressive track record of doing so just ahead of recessions/disasters/mergers etc…and we seem to always have incredibly poor luck in our negotiation timeline…These things have made them the super-heroes of the investor world…This is life at a boutique investment firm…that happens to own airplanes. In their plan, attrition is not a problem. We speak pilot language to them and they speak investor language to us….There is no plan after we do get a contract for Alaska Airlines to run an airline…These are the facts with which potential hires should view this company…Pilot myopia is always a problem here.