Galaxy5

No, that was similar, though. Gotta admit I dumped a lot of stuff from my memory when I left last year, but iirc it was Bill(?) in BOI in the name of streamlining redundancies. They brought that office under SEA for a time, let the dust settle, then hired to have a BCP there again. It was the same shakeup that put April in PDX.

snackysmores

Bill is still BCP in BOI

April was BCP in SEA but she's going to AS.

Galaxy5

Missed on the name then. April used to split her time with PDX, maybe end of 2015ish, and I think we had 3 covering the lower 5 bases.

cactusflyer

I can't remember the name, but I think you're referring to the guy who was the only non-flying BCP at Horizon.

DashAviator

sYou're probably thinking of Gary S., the base chief pilot for Seattle. He was a nice guy to most of us. For everyone else, he was in the "management material, but not an idiot" category. We could use a few more people like him.

On a side note (or is it a "snide" note?), most of our managers would fall into the "non-flying" category. Every one of them claims to be a line pilot "just like us", but the reality is that most of them would prefer to lie down in a bathtub full of live rattlesnakes than fly an actual airplane. It would be great if all of our managers would be required to fly at least six bids out of the year. They'd have to fly the same trips, stay in the same crappy hotels, and deal with fatigue, late vans, and 2-hour flow delays. It's fun to pretend to be a line pilot, but the reality involves a lot of hard work and patience.

Sikorsky38

If you look back two or three months in Alaska’s forums, you will find a lot of commentary surrounding that event. He was extremely popular among the AS pilots.

Ashes

Back to the original topic, Alaska’s best days are behind them. They burned through their reserves of employee goodwill whoring themselves out to Wall Street, and now that capital has fled for greener pastures, which it always does, they’ve got nothing.

This is the sick zebra in the herd, and the lions are going to eat. They’re getting beaten on home turf by Delta, and Southwest is about to take away a huge chunk of their Hawaii business. My friends there mainly just hope that their jobs will be a part of the carcass that the competitors end up fighting over.

Dashdrvr

AS best days ARE behind them. As previously quoted, have burned through any employee morale. All that remains is the new hire rah rah. Might carry them for six months. AS and QX need that churn. With 880 pilots to operate 53 planes is some serious over staffing to cover the churn.
Probably the only way AS can survive is evolve into a LCC or ULCC. Tilden has made a couple references to mimicking a LLC with customer service of a legacy carrier. Unfortunately their cost structure is unlike a LCC. Last quarter results reflects that. Basically acquisition of Virgin has buried them and is going to require some serious excavation to return to their former glory. Firing a bunch of management isn't going to cut it.