Quality of Life
07-09-2018 | 09:17 AM
#61
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 694
Likes: 0
The junior guys do fine too. When I was 80% I still did pretty good for my trips bid, and more importantly my days off bid. As for the rest, the airbus hiring stopped end of January followed quickly by Boeing. The 4% growth rate is the main reason for the slowdown. On the Airbus side, it’s also the repainting and new interiors that is going to happen on the entire fleet in 18 months. That’s a fairly aggressive schedule, and will take planes out for weeks at a time. And yeah, we’re overstaffed on the Airbus side. That’s why there are daily emails offering premium pay to cover trips. 
Serious question: why would anyone come here anymore? 620 retirements in 10 years out of 2,900. That’s barely 21% of the list. If you want ANC there’s Fedex/UPS. SEA is Delta, SF United, and LAX all 4 legacy carriers. PDX is the only unique AS base.
Serious question: why would anyone come here anymore? 620 retirements in 10 years out of 2,900. That’s barely 21% of the list. If you want ANC there’s Fedex/UPS. SEA is Delta, SF United, and LAX all 4 legacy carriers. PDX is the only unique AS base.
07-09-2018 | 09:28 AM
#62
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 544
Likes: 0
From: Driving a Bus for Recreational Pleasure.
Pilots have asked the, “why come here”, question about EVERY airline in existence. You know that one day an airline is scrapping along barely able to keep the doors open and the next, they’re the IT place to be. It’s happened at UAL, DAL, SW, FDX, UPS, AA....... We all go to where it works best for us and that will never change. My personal opinion is that the current cycle we find ourselves in at AS, like all other cycles, will reverse for the better. Worst case, or best case, depending on how you look at it, AS gets absorbed into another bigger airline and life goes on.
07-09-2018 | 09:35 AM
#63
Prime Minister/Moderator
Joined: Jan 2006
Posts: 44,888
Likes: 684
From: Engines Turn or People Swim
"Serious question: why would anyone come here anymore? 620 retirements in 10 years out of 2,900. That’s barely 21% of the list. If you want ANC there’s Fedex/UPS. SEA is Delta, SF United, and LAX all 4 legacy carriers. PDX is the only unique AS base."
People will come but they won't stay.
People will come but they won't stay.
07-09-2018 | 09:50 AM
#64
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 694
Likes: 0
Plenty of folks back at the (west coast) regional who would kill for a job at AS. If I spent the morning on the phone I could probably get a 100 volunteers to start in two weeks. Would they stay? Depends on growth(merger?), age, family, competitiveness, and opportunity.
07-09-2018 | 10:05 AM
#65
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Feb 2018
Posts: 694
Likes: 0
Well, a quick look back in time will show you that AS was briefly at the top of the cycle after the industry collapse in the early 2000’s. A lotta pilots came knocking on AS’s doors when their bigger, better, companies laid them off, cut their pensions or went out of business all together. That was about 18-13 years ago. Just slightly less than 86 years as you say. I don’t know about you but I’m about 50% away from being in that coveted 20% of the company. I do know a few guys who are in the 20% range and as far as I can tell, they don’t think of themselves or the company as “superior” but who knows. I don’t hang out with them after work.
07-09-2018 | 10:27 AM
#66
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: May 2016
Posts: 288
Likes: 0
From: 737 tiller master
Post 9/11 to the time when hiring slowly picked back up again, Alaska was a coveted place to work by default. Every one of my friends who were with the big 5 then were furloughed and/or took huge concessions. I had friends knocking on my door for a job with Alaska but none of them got on but fortunately for them, life worked out eventually and made it out with only minor scratches. Remember, the pendulum never stops swinging.
We can all agree that Alaska Airlines can only shine when their competitors can't perform. Case in point-our last JDP.
We can all agree that Alaska Airlines can only shine when their competitors can't perform. Case in point-our last JDP.
07-09-2018 | 02:45 PM
#68
Line Holder
Joined: Nov 2006
Posts: 927
Likes: 2
From: This side of the dirt.
Is “strike vote” even in your vocabulary? Im just curious, not knowing the history,.... I’ve never seen such regularly defeatist rhetoric from group. “They’ll never do this or that.” “Good luck with that.” Etc seems to be regularly said in response to very reasonable changes. Y’all always been that way, or did that Kasher thing just totally pride cut your will?
07-09-2018 | 03:26 PM
#69
Guest
Posts: n/a
Plenty of folks back at the (west coast) regional who would kill for a job at AS. If I spent the morning on the phone I could probably get a 100 volunteers to start in two weeks. Would they stay? Depends on growth(merger?), age, family, competitiveness, and opportunity.
07-09-2018 | 06:54 PM
#70
Gets Weekends Off
Joined: Nov 2009
Posts: 236
Likes: 0
From: A320
The junior guys do fine too. When I was 80% I still did pretty good for my trips bid, and more importantly my days off bid. As for the rest, the airbus hiring stopped end of January followed quickly by Boeing. The 4% growth rate is the main reason for the slowdown. On the Airbus side, it’s also the repainting and new interiors that is going to happen on the entire fleet in 18 months. That’s a fairly aggressive schedule, and will take planes out for weeks at a time. And yeah, we’re overstaffed on the Airbus side. That’s why there are daily emails offering premium pay to cover trips.
Serious question: why would anyone come here anymore? 620 retirements in 10 years out of 2,900. That’s barely 21% of the list. If you want ANC there’s Fedex/UPS. SEA is Delta, SF United, and LAX all 4 legacy carriers. PDX is the only unique AS base.
Serious question: why would anyone come here anymore? 620 retirements in 10 years out of 2,900. That’s barely 21% of the list. If you want ANC there’s Fedex/UPS. SEA is Delta, SF United, and LAX all 4 legacy carriers. PDX is the only unique AS base.
Thread
Thread Starter
Forum
Replies
Last Post
