It doesn’t look like they care. And an east coast pilot probably doesn’t even want to work for an airline named Alaska, even if they had a NY base. A cold hard fact about the Virgin NYC base, where you got in is where you were stuck. It was a dead end base for FOs. Literally zero movement. The only time I moved up from about ~37 / 55ish was when FOs above me got tired of it and took the west coast upgrade. Then before the doors closed the best I had was about #18.

Of course, once the virtual base thing happened, these guys who bid out west coast for upgrade were hosed from bidding NYC because they weren’t based in NY on paper when the base closed Aug 31, 2018.