Originally Posted by AKCattleCarrier

I would like to add on to this that HA is aproximately 20% overstaffed for current flying according to their own forum. Nearly half of their seniority list commutes from CONUS, LOWER 48, MAINLAND, STATESIDE (whatever term doesn't offend Hawaiian sensibilities) to HNL according to their own forum. 717's are old and innefiicient, A330-200s are old and inneficient, 787's have production problems as well, and Amazon contract is a 50/50 at best business proposition that Alaska will want to keep around, merger math is never 1+1= 2, and the possiblity of flailing global demand for travel. Hope you like where you are on the seniority list. As someone sitting just under upgrade, its a significant dissapointment. My gut tells me this merger will prohibit me from getting out at 60 as I was hoping. I have no one to blame but myself for staying and should have trusted my gut and made the leap 4+ years ago when I saw all the 2nd and 3rd order negative effects the VA merger had on this pilot group from both sides of the aisle. In hindsight the correct decision seems obvious.