Different Base pros and cons
 

Hello all. I am a new hire here at Alaska. So far has been incredible experience and SUPER ecstatic to be here. Only positive energy! I am curious about the different base choices. As I understand it, as a new hire I can expect, LAX, SEA or SFO. I am wondering of pros and cons on each. Mostly interested in new guys that have had to deal with reserve and have recent experience with what I will be encountering. Thanks for the help! Looking to know about ease of finding crashpad, coummutability, and trip destinations.

Great question! I’m starting training Jan 7 and wonder also. Hope to get ANC at some point.


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Where do y’all live? Commuting to AS reserve can get old but if you’ve been hired already sounds like you’re in the front of the 144 newhire wave (or a small splash). SEA is 737 only, SFO is 320 only, and LAX is both fleets.

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Knoxville. I have been commuting for a regional so nothing AS can throw at me can be worse than that! :) Gonna be a brutal commute cross country but so worth it! Plans to move to PDX or SEA at some point but not until after first year. Thanks for the legit response!

Well, Alaska’s reserve rules and the way your “hours off” are scheduled is worse than most places regionals included, but once you are off reserve you can look forward to 12 or maybe 13 days off a month for a while

There is a two-year equipment freeze in the CBA. 737 bases are ANC/PDX/SEA/LAX, Airbus in LAX/SFO. I don't know how AS arranges new hire classes, but I would prioritize airplane first because of the seat lock.

LAX is more commutable than SFO. Whenever SFO drops to two runways, you're hosed. SFO is one of the most GDP prone airports. I know some guys who live in SEA and commute to LAX.

SD told us in the Q A session of the interview that new hires are not seat locked, as they have no choice of equipment.


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SD told me lots of stuff. Apparently I’d be able to bid the bus in October...

It’s December...


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