Originally Posted by ShyGuy

On reserve I’m making way more. Delta and United can’t just pickup regular straight pay open time out of the pot for pay above guarantee. It has to be a premium deal and even then that’s seniority order. Getting green slips is going to be tough for junior street CAs.

Here, I haven’t been used on reserve days. So I picked up a 2-day, a 1-day, and a 2-day on regular days off. Pay went from 79 hrs guarantee to 106.5 hrs. At Delta or United, I’d have to put in for a premium pickup and would not get it because people senior to me would be awarded those trips.


Speaking of premium. Tons of CA premium at Delta and United. Last glance at Alaska system wide CAs: ZERO premium. Alaska CAs are staffed properly. Dare I say, overstaffed in some bases. Forget premium here, that will only happen once in a while now that CA staffing is good. FO is a separate story, they are short. But recently it seems they are carving up and more FOs I fly with are saying they are having some luck in 3rd step and regular


Bottom line, there’s ways to make money here. Some things other airlines don’t have. And yes, we lack some things they have. It’s not perfect by any means. But it’s still a decent 3 yr contract with early opener potential late next year.