LAX and SFO is junior for FOs and LAX is the most senior base for Capts, SFO most junior

 

I would like to add on to this that HA is aproximately 20% overstaffed for current flying according to their own forum. Nearly half of their seniority list commutes from CONUS, LOWER 48, MAINLAND, STATESIDE (whatever term doesn't offend Hawaiian sensibilities) to HNL according to their own forum. 717's are old and innefiicient, A330-200s are old and inneficient, 787's have production problems as well, and Amazon contract is a 50/50 at best business proposition that Alaska will want to keep around, merger math is never 1+1= 2, and the possiblity of flailing global demand for travel. Hope you like where you are on the seniority list. As someone sitting just under upgrade, its a significant dissapointment. My gut tells me this merger will prohibit me from getting out at 60 as I was hoping. I have no one to blame but myself for staying and should have trusted my gut and made the leap 4+ years ago when I saw all the 2nd and 3rd order negative effects the VA merger had on this pilot group from both sides of the aisle. In hindsight the correct decision seems obvious.

 

Half the seniority list commutes from the mainland?
That’s hard to believe. Where are you getting that info?
that’s huge if true…

 

I don't know if it's half, but it's a lot.

 

IF true, more than half of that half is hired in the last 18 months. CVG hires or HNL based new hires unwilling to risk a move being junior in all the uncertainties to the islands.

 

It's not that significant for sure. They put out a chart at the beginning of covid and it was 706 HI, 161 mainland. Now that we are 300 more pilots and have ~120 freight pilots, it's maybe like 700-800 HI, 300-400 mainland. Definetely not 50/50

 

Also, the 20% over staffing is correcting itself daily with the 321’s back flying and the 330F and 787’s coming on property. It sounds like we’ll be properly staffed by Q3 of this year.

 

Qiuestion for AS pilots. What happens to your sick leave balance when you retire?
HA is use it or lose it.
Sad, I know.

 

Changed a lot recently. When I started working you got .25 on the dollar when you retired. Now there is a ratio of what you get to keep. Once you get to like 800hrs of sick leave you keep the dollar value 1:1. For less you keep less. I don't remember what the exact values were.

I'm pretty sure this changed to prevent senior pilots from burning up their sick leave before retirement.

 

500+ hours => 100% payout.