Originally Posted by
ShyGuy
Not a quality. Those were just lame reasons for choosing an airline in this current market.
As for the second part, say I am a mid 20s guy and I love the west coast. Why shouldn’t I take DL for SEA and LAX, or UA for SFO and LAX? Culture, 737, routes doesn’t cut it.
I can’t believe that you’d either ignore, or worse, disregard one of the more important career aspects: seniority and upward movement from retirements. 3400 pilots today and how many retire the next 10 years? 600-700ish? The big 3 retire far more, proportionately speaking and resulting in a better relative position. DAL and soon UAL with the new contract will allow basically direct entry CAs. How’s that compare to a 2018 junior CA? Alaska has the most senior upgrade at the major airlines, except Southwest.
You’re disregarding real, measurable, quantifiable variables for choosing an airline over touchy feely things like culture and perceived fleet awesomeness.
Money alone isn’t going to solve this.
You really are special. No wonder you don't post on Alyeska anymore.
You've gone from one of the biggest kool aid drinkers at this company to actively fighting a guy why MORE money is not going to help retention (like the Union is fighting for) and arguing that we aren't the place to be no matter what.
Is it literally, you've got yours in your little bubble or something else? Maybe it's time for you to take off the golden handcuffs and leave if...
West Coast only bases are bad
Single fleet is bad
Seniority progression is bad etc etc
How about keeping quiet while the Union does the work behind the scenes to get us back to average instead of mouthing off every 4 hours how no pay increase will help attrition