Originally Posted by QCappy

No. Alaska would be hiring someone anyway. The pilot is obviously not going to stay at Horizon, so they would have to train someone anyway. And, it has the effect of lowering the overall seniority at Horizon, thus lowering overall pilot costs in the long run. The study was done several years ago by Alaska ALPA and Horizon IBT and was found to actually save the airgroup millions a year if they only hired Horizon guys.