Let's assume for a minute that AS has just grown organically. On Oct 1st AS would be furloughing. No sweet no-fly lines for up to 24 months. No early outs (apparently being negotiated this week). Having two fleets makes it much more difficult for them to furlough.

Is this thread REALLY happening? 🤣🤣🤣

Those sweet 24 month no fly lines were supposed to be signed off yesterday by the brain trust in Angle Lake. I wouldn’t take it as a given they will actually happen. I read the email giving the explanation of why they were not, but I have no trust of the two Bs keeping their word on anything. I do appreciate everything the union is trying do for the pilots, it’s certainly a herculean effort given the group of people they have to negotiate with.

It seems so. I'm still head scratching over what should have been a one page troll post.

Yeah we must be really bored at home if we resorted to digging this up again.

And it would be plug-and-play in the future, just insert the word "blue" in the middle.

Before this current industry downturn is over, if ALK gets cheap enough, I just don't see how SWA doesn't make a play for them.

Hope I'm wrong. :eek:

I hope you're right.

Well there is that whole SWAPA thing...

Alaska is certainly a frustrating place to work, to say the least. In my opinion a buy out by southwest would it be the great savior many think it would be, remember AirTran? A merger with another ALPA carrier would be far more desirable.