Alaska Air Hiring
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The day AS bought VX, the Bus time on the property was limited.
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AS is probably a bit small to need or benefit much from two NB fleets, and even though NEO is a better plane than max, AS is (for obvious reasons) not going to do an all bus fleet. 321NEO's can probably do some things max can't but I doubt it's cost-effective to bother keeping a handful around for special missions (airlines which are five times larger have the economy of scale to do that).
Of course if there's a merger/acquisition in the works, all bets are off. The 737's could be sold at a fire sale and the SEA HQ staff would be too busy re-apply for their own jobs in DFW, ATL, NYC, etc to care about All Boeing.
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Delta is a powerhouse that will grow organically, specifically Seattle/West Coast internationals. Southwest is growing organically in Hawaii and will then move on the central/South America.
Neither one needs or wants this disgruntled pilot group merging into their ranks.
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jetBlue tried to buy Virgin so you know they are looking. There still will be more mergers, 6 airlines have yet to merge in some way: Hawaiian, jetBlue, Spirit, Frontier, Allegiant, and Sun Country. It may take the next economic downturn to trigger a round of mergers.
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I don’t see any mergers coming up in the near future. Management secured their positions by purchasing Virgin, making us just slightly large enough that we are more difficult to acquire.
Delta is a powerhouse that will grow organically, specifically Seattle/West Coast internationals. Southwest is growing organically in Hawaii and will then move on the central/South America.
Neither one needs or wants this disgruntled pilot group merging into their ranks.
Delta is a powerhouse that will grow organically, specifically Seattle/West Coast internationals. Southwest is growing organically in Hawaii and will then move on the central/South America.
Neither one needs or wants this disgruntled pilot group merging into their ranks.
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You think anyone cares about our contentment? No acquisition/merger would ever take place if the disposition of the pilot group was taken into consideration. You think this is bad? Talk to the pilots that lived/live through the Frankenstein that is U.S. Air/America West/AA/TWA. Or CAL/UAL or DAL/NWA or AT/SWA.....just to name a few disgruntled groups. Yet all those shotgun weddings happened. Money, not feelings, is the only thing that matters.
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Well, there’s a new trend in Europe, which may just make it’s way over here. Let the struggling airline fail, then pick it’s carcass apart. Seems to be working quite well. We may not see mergers as much anymore.
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