Originally Posted by OCCP

A 737 is nice jet? Maybe in 1965

Originally Posted by IFlyNFish

I was keeping it positive. Didn't last long (way to drag it down). But yes, relative to other carriers, it's nice.

Originally Posted by full of luv

Just curious, because the one's I've rode on didn't have any seatback entertainment.

How are the Alaska 737's "nicer" than the other carriers? Are you talking about a cockpit perspective?

Originally Posted by IFlyNFish

Yep. But I'll leave it alone. Experience outside of AS gives some perspective.

Doesn't make management any better... but at least the jets were nice to fly.

Back to the gripes.

Originally Posted by Beta82

I’ve been wanting to post this for a while but just haven’t gotten around to it. Recently being acquired by Alaska has made me really start some serious soul searching. This question up in another post and I though it was good for us to elaborate on, possibly for people looking to come work here or people who are on the fence who are currently here.

I never had to / never wanted to ask the , “Why Alaska?” question until now, and honestly I’m having a problem answering this in a positive way. I’d like to start a discussion with the pilots who work at mainline Alaska now regarding why they chose Alaska and what the like about it. Before you flame me for not having enough posts you can see I’ve been on this board for about 10 years and yes I am a pilot here, I’m not a troll. This is just something that is serious enough to me to finally post on this forum.

Some of the things I was wondering are:

What made you want to work there before you got hired?
What makes you stay?
What does Alaska have that other bigger/better airlines don’t?
Can you talk about anything positive?

I’m not really looking for this to devolve into a *****ing fest and trust me I can name 100s reasons why this place looks bad to me. I’m looking for some positive and possibly unknown reason why you chose/like/stay at Alaska. Again please only positive things, I can read all the negative in other posts and we can start another thread about why we hate this place if you want to be negative.

Thanks,
Fellow(on the fence)AAG pilot

Originally Posted by EskimoJoe

Why Alaska? Well, does it advance your career? Then That’s why. Who Cares? Get some good training, do some cool flying and when a better deal comes along, bail.