Originally Posted by SkyHigh

Like others have mentioned before it is all in how Alaska time is received by the interviewer. When I interviewed with Alaska Airlines ironically enough the human resources person had a problem with my Alaska employment history. She couldn't understand why I would only work for a place seasonally or would move on after a year or two. She also couldn't understand that some of the jobs were dangerous and located in a miserable remote village that offered a low quality of life and how that would motivate someone to leave as quickly as possible.

Other employers at the charter level thought that Alaska Pilots were all "mavericks" and saw it as a liability. Perhaps I had a bad run however I haven't seen any of my Alaska pilot peers who have fared any better. Perhaps if you were to get a job immediately for ERA or in the right seat at Penair things would have been different. Back in my time those guys were all sponsored by their Alaska Airlines fathers who dropped a dime to get them a job there. In my case however I was stuck in piston planes and moved my way up the ladder company to company.

In any case we all mostly advance through friends and contacts that we make along the way. Alaska is an isolated place the contacts that I made there could only get me dried fish or beer. It was difficult to move on after that state.

SkyHigh