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Originally Posted by lowflying (Post 2742169)

The company doesn't want it. You're right it doesn't cost them anything but look how hard the are fighting the union in HIMs; they won't give up anything unless it benefits them in atangible way.

They are very data driven so intagibles like crew qol that can't be measured and collected i.e. "data" doesn't compute and therefore must be bad or it must be something that the pilots will trade for.

If you want to change something here then you need to be creating data. Hotel and fatigue reports etc.... If they can't measure it then it's not happening.

Measure it in sick calls.

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Originally Posted by NewGuy01 (Post 2741887)

We could pick up trips from pilots at SkyWest. It was great. I never worked on reserve and picked up LGA turns out of ORD on my days off. Easy money. I made almost as much on first year pay at SkyWest doing that as I do now.

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How is that even possible... I’ll assume you were at SKW when newhire was closer to $40/hr and 1st year at Alaska is $89.89. Things aren’t perfect here but working my tail off as a Captain at SKW on year 6/7 pay was only about $10k more than what I made my first year here at Alaska.