Originally Posted by
Clipper88
you’ll be on reserve at ANC for at least a year.
The company has 8 new E175s arriving this year but it sounds like they won’t have the captains to operate them. As soon as captains upgrade 30% go to united, 30% go to delta, 30% use pathways to go to Alaska and the remaining 10% either stay at horizon or go elsewhere.
spirit, allegiant, frontier, JetBlue all are hiring 1500 hour flight instructors with an unrestricted ATP. They have much better work rules and better QOL that’s comparable to alaska mainlines contract. There’s no reason for any flight instructor to go to a regional airline right now when alaskas contract is now industry standard for entry level ATPs.
So if you iive near ANC and want to live in base it's a good option. If you are looking to join Horizon and want a base out of ANC or don't want to commute to ANC it's going to be a long road to get there.
But for someone that lives in ANC and wants to go to Horizon and potentially use the pathways program to get to Alaska it could be a good route?
Horizon, soon to be short on captains, currently bottlenecked with FO's, lots of pilots transition to Alaska and/or other majors when able?