you mean like years ago when I submitted an ALK app and was promptly contacted by some outfit calling themselves “smart recruiters” asking if I’d be willing to interview for a position at Horizon.... “part of the air group” they said....

If I were a young pilot today I’d be tracking what management said to me vs what actually happens.


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400 pilots 🤣 That number probably includes the FAs as well! When I interviewed 3 years ago Hornibrook told us during lunch that we will be around 5000 pilots 5 years from now, meaning 2022. Good luck with that!

I remember that lol, I had already left Horizon on top of it too!

I would guess less than 100 at Alaska this year. I don’t think furloughs are on the horizon yet, but I’d give that a higher chance than Alaska hiring 400 this year, that’s just ridiculous.

It's not 400, that was corrected in an earlier post.

Said the 400 number was 200 Alaska and 200 Horizon.

I would be really surprised if Alaska airlines hires anything close to 200, my guess is around at most.

“is around at most...”

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They once said, "2000 pilots by the year 2000." I don't think we ever had more than 1500 until the VX merger.

We were somewhere between 1800-1900 when the acquisition was announced. Just 16 years and a hundred or so short of 2000 by 2000.