Alaska or Jetblue?
08-31-2019 | 08:39 PM
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Off course upgrade time matters, but the people upgrading now were hired over a decade ago. Using that number to make a prognosis about upgrade time for future hires is not an exact science. Our upgrade in DTW went from 10 to 2 years in one class because of no hiring for 4 years and all DTW FOs were where they wanted to be. If you want to make a (more?) educated guess you need to look at standing bids, forecast retirements and forecast growth (and hope and pray nothing else changes in the next decade). Conservative option: pick a company (and hope it picks you back) where you want to work, unless the upgrade is below 3 years, results from the past don't matter.
09-01-2019 | 08:49 AM
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I think we're saying the same thing. It has stayed sub 5 for the last yr and has been inching closer to 4 for a while. Even before integration. We've hired more this year, (and are told we're hiring the same next year), than we've ever hired before. We just had the largest upgrade bid in our history. Prior to that, the previous 4 years saw unprecedented hiring with 200-250 a yr. (Minus 1 yr of only 150ish). So we're "trending" towards shorter upgrade times and more hiring. This is not purely based on the minimal attrition we've had. If the same factors are in play for the foreseeable future. I can't see the percentage of bypasses changing keeping upgrades around 4, maybe sub 4 yrs.
09-03-2019 | 12:52 PM
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09-03-2019 | 06:55 PM
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09-03-2019 | 08:18 PM
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Brown shoes being an option makes it even worse... a uniform is supposed to be...well, uniform. Women can wear brown, navy blue, or black shoes, and men can wear black or brown... that with our different jacket options will make us all look quite different. Just a guess on my part.. will be funny if people wear black shoes and the brown jacket too, and just general mismatching the uniform and colors
09-03-2019 | 08:26 PM
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Some days you can identify as brown and others black. It goes well with most west coast for sure. Hopefully Skywest will get the same options as it’s really important to have our own distinctive uniform for our GUESTS
09-04-2019 | 04:47 AM
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Blue used to be my favorite color.
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