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What is the future of the ANC base? Junior? Senior? Continued shrinkage?

I'd say ANC is the junior base today. Be we never know when that will change. LAX just got a boost in growth (not much) due to some relief in the contract to allow more co-terminal domicile flying, and I see SEA growing. If I had to guess, there wouldn't be not much growth in ANC or PDX. If you get on, be ready to be in ANY of the 4 bases, and hold you choice base in year 2. I've learned to keep my expectations low thus far.

do you think that this next group that gets hired will be furloughed like the last group....seems like conditions are going to be ripe for that in a year or so.....a friend from the mngmt side that was cut back in 09 told me that the corp. culture is fanatical when it comes to playing the market...She said that her dept. would play scenarios with wall streeters and employees were cannon fodder in that game....prob. timing is everything

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Originally Posted by cesnacaptn (Post 1048377)

I called DM to ask about something other than the bid. Her outgoing message said she was going to be out of the office most of next week to process the bid with ALPA. It sounds like info won't start getting leaked until next Tuesday or Wednesday.

...and then have to come back the next week to redo the bid that got screwed up in some manner. $20 we don't see this one till 5 pm next Friday.

Mookie

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Originally Posted by Mookie (Post 1048513)

...and then have to come back the next week to redo the bid that got screwed up in some manner. $20 we don't see this one till 5 pm next Friday.

Mookie

That is the modus operandi, isn't it?

Is there any gouge out there for the math, verbal and pscychological tests given during the interview process? Thanks.

The jobs.alaskaair.com site says that it will be back Sept. 6th.
Speculation is that the site was down to get it ready for pilot apps. Any word on this?

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Originally Posted by Pickleman (Post 1049023)

Is there any gouge out there for the math, verbal and pscychological tests given during the interview process? Thanks.

The gouge on ****************** seems pretty old.
will fly for food has one from 2007.
I heard a rumor that there will not be a sim ride. Any truth to this?

that is my pilot career .com I didn't know you couldn't type web addresses.

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Originally Posted by CaptainMe (Post 1049639)

The jobs.alaskaair.com site says that it will be back Sept. 6th.
Speculation is that the site was down to get it ready for pilot apps. Any word on this?

The jobs site is down as part of a bigger upgrade of our human resources management site. Although a new pilot application could be a part of the upgrade, the pilot application is not the primary reason for the site being down.

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Originally Posted by CaptainMe (Post 1049641)

The gouge on ****************** seems pretty old.
will fly for food has one from 2007.
I heard a rumor that there will not be a sim ride. Any truth to this?

One could only speculate if there have been changes to the pilot interview since the last pilot was hired in January of 2008. My guess, is that there won't be a sim ride. I haven't heard of anyone receiving one since we restarted hiring in 2005. Also, the HR manager that was in charge of hiring from '05-'08 is rumored to have left the company. Whomever replaces that person from the HR department could make changes to the process. Just a guess, but if you prepare for your interview based on gouges from '05-'07, you should be good to go.