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Cruz5350 02-15-2021 02:58 PM

Thanks for the response, I know it’s not how recall goes but I wonder if they take into account people whom are on leave but will be transitioning fleets when they come back.

OTZeagle1 02-15-2021 03:44 PM

30 more SFO reductions by this summer was the last number I heard.

OTZeagle1 02-15-2021 04:01 PM


Originally Posted by 9mikemike (Post 3195226)
The last down cycle we not only furloughed but then it was 4 years until we hired again. This down cycle seems to be just getting underway. It is allowing conversion to a single fleet without the need for a training bubble. The last down cycle we had no ejets to take over for mainline. When they talk about coming out of a down cycle stronger they definitely do not mean bigger in terms of pilots. The increase in asm’s from 320 to 900ER/Max is what they mean by growth.

Just to give everyone an idea
Our old mix of 737/320 and 235 aircraft to our new mix of 235 737/321... Exact same number of airplanes will equate to 23% revenue growth and negative growth for pilots.

Mea25000 02-15-2021 05:34 PM

I buy most of it 😉
I am pretty sure every B737 pilot is back by the end of summer...
All A320 pilots back by late spring 2022...
230 of the A320 pilots will be transitioning to the B737 over the next 16 months.
Nothing in stone until middle to late spring
SFO is closing

av8or 02-15-2021 05:40 PM


Originally Posted by OTZeagle1 (Post 3195529)
Just to give everyone an idea
Our old mix of 737/320 and 235 aircraft to our new mix of 235 737/321... Exact same number of airplanes will equate to 23% revenue growth and negative growth for pilots.

JFK base.... gone
SFO base .... gone
Most West Coast.... gone

Whew..... that’s a buttload of money to pay to get rid of a competitor’s ability to expand. Gotta say though, they did an amazing job spinning it as a “growth” decision at FlightPath.

The only “growth” at Alaska comes in living on less, maximizing your 401K and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If you think it’s gonna come via expansion/upgrade, that’s just wishful thinking.

OTZeagle1 02-17-2021 10:48 AM


Originally Posted by av8or (Post 3195559)
JFK base.... gone
SFO base .... gone
Most West Coast.... gone

Whew..... that’s a buttload of money to pay to get rid of a competitor’s ability to expand. Gotta say though, they did an amazing job spinning it as a “growth” decision at FlightPath.

The only “growth” at Alaska comes in living on less, maximizing your 401K and the Employee Stock Purchase Plan. If you think it’s gonna come via expansion/upgrade, that’s just wishful thinking.

Although I understand your angst, covid changed the plan. Covid changed everyone’s plans. 2020-2023 will be touted as years of 6% growth, just growth that doesn’t benefit you or I. These three years will be used to cross train 485 pilots. Hopefully, the real growth for us will commence again in 2024. The brightest light during this time period will be the fact that everyone was able to keep a paycheck coming in, something that was never true in the past. Relax and enjoy, hopefully better day’s lye ahead.

9mikemike 02-17-2021 12:40 PM

Another way to look at it. The only employees that even give a thought to pilot seniority list growth are active line pilots on the Alaska pilots seniority list. Everyone else from the board chair to the most junior csa see growth as ASM’s...and Code Shares. The continuing swap of A320/B737-700/800 to B737-900ER/Max is substantial ASM growth and will be advertised as “growth”. ASM growth, base closure and single fleet efficiency will eat up our seniority list for awhile.

OTZeagle1 02-23-2021 03:25 PM

10 CA and 10 FO Airbus reductions per month for the next 24 months. There should be quarterly bids with 30 Airbus CA reductions, 30 Airbus FO reductions, resulting in 60 total reductions, this will be the norm for the next 2 years.

SFO closer is fluid, if I had to bet, October 2022.
By the end of 2023 we will have 124 Airbus pilots, all based in LAX.

9mikemike 02-23-2021 05:39 PM


Originally Posted by OTZeagle1 (Post 3198733)
10 CA and 10 FO Airbus reductions per month for the next 24 months. There should be quarterly bids with 30 Airbus CA reductions, 30 Airbus FO reductions, resulting in 60 total reductions, this will be the norm for the next 2 years.

SFO closer is fluid, if I had to bet, October 2022.
By the end of 2023 we will have 124 Airbus pilots, all based in LAX.

The mini-coochee says that the remaining A321NEO’s will be used to fly long-haul premium out of SEA...Not sure he wont want them coming home to roost in the Emerald Chity...

OTZeagle1 02-23-2021 06:08 PM

I was told a lot of 4 day transcons. LAX-JFK,JFK-SEA, SEA-JFK, JFK-SEA... similar story for BOS, EWR, BWI, IAD, DCA, probably a sprinkle of LAX -SEA, and a DH or two. I don’t see any reasonable chance the 321 is based in SEA.

CLT was supposed to happen this summer, I was told announcement soon, thinking that might have just got pushed to next spring.


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