saywhat

So I just got a response from Alaska concerning my application being rejected.

It was for the same reason stated above......"no high school diploma or equivalent".........I too reviewed my answers and had marked that question "yes"

The response from Alaska indicates that there is nothing that can be done about it now. The answers are locked in and cannot be changed!

So basically....."No soup for you! NEXT!"

OCCP

That response proves they just don’t care.

opdeliber

It is not. Also, this is not a good place to be. Some are even leaving Alaska to go to regionals.

I know it seems like it’s impossible, but your quality of life will suffer considerably by coming here.

Baradium

Disclaimer: I'm not an Alaska pilot

While I find it shocking that there are pilots doing that, they are doing it for PIC time. The poster seems to have enough of that now.

For the OP, even if QOL will be similar, at least Alaska is its own carrier. The former RJ pilots I've talked to jumpseating tend to say it is better than the regionals, even with all the problems.

flysooner9

How long would it take to hold LAX?

Reactivity

Yeah, pretty much.

The application process at Alaska is a big turnoff. Unlike other places, you can't update. You have to wait for them to dump the last set of applications and reapply. Fortunately, the application is pretty simple. But as you've seen, their own apparent errors can lock you out and they seem uninterested in addressing it.

Then there's jumping through hoops just to get called for an interview. They do this "meet & greet", which is essentially the interview before the interview. If you're invited, you have to make your way to Seattle (I live there, but there's still working around work schedules) for a 10-minute meet with somebody that is little more than you get at any other recruiting event except that if they like you, they say you can expect to hear something soon about "next steps", i.e. a call for an actual interview. They called one bunch to interview after the last one before they freaked out about the 1Q loss and stopped hiring. The last contact said that they had filled classes for the summer, but we could expect to hear something in the fall. "Reapply" is what I heard.

Beta82

Yes absolutely it’s better than a regional, from the same position. From a 12 year position who holds all weekends off, holidays off, days off with kids, max vacation accrual. Etc. This guy probably gets good non rev benefits with a major.

He’s going to step into years of reserve(remember we aren’t growing), stalled seniority progression, bad schedules once you get a line (12-13 days off), loss of decent non rev benefits, etc. IMHO it’s a huge sacrifice for somewhere you should be planning on leaving. Yes the pay is better but THAT’S IT. I’m only arguing that you should wait it out, do your carrer a favor. If you already lived in an AS base it might make sense, the the OP is talking about uprooting his life for mediocrity.

ImperialxRat

SEA LAX and ANC all possible out of training, with the majority of new hires going to SEA.



PDX takes about a year.



No idea about SFO since we're hiring into Boeing.

coolyokeluke

Minor edit: ANC took about six months for my classmates, they pretty much filled it up with locals and it's not growing so it could be a while longer than 6months now.

PDX has gone increasingly senior, 1.5 years for the junior people who were recently awarded it and looking more like 2 years going forward.

Mostly SEA slots with a few LAX for new hires.

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Outdoors

If you think the application process needs work wait till you use crew access for trip trades!