Alaska Posts Loss
 

Alaska posted a net loss of about $53 million for 2006 after deducting aircraft conversion and Mexico refunds. Sounds to me like they are going to play the hardball game with the pilot contract.:mad:

I hope they get a nice big pay raise. The previous slap in the face paycut caused a lot of anger in a great pilot group.

Well accountants can show anything. Even though they show a loss, we are going to share over 36 million in profit sharing. In addition, the company made 122 million in contributions to the pension plan. It is now over 80% funded.

Posted on Alaskasworld.com, "Excluding special items, Alaska Airlines earned an adjusted pretax profit of $200.5 million for the year, after posting a $1.9 million loss in the fourth quarter." Also, Alaska has over 1 billion in cash available.

We are going to negotiate hard also.

!!! We have tons of military guys. They seem to hire heavy drivers mostly though. I know mins are mins but surely you must be close. If you are close, send in the app and keep the updates coming.

I am currently on my third fighter tour and still only have around 1,300 hours PIC turbine. Fighter guys are not going to have a significant difference between their total time and their PIC turbine time, since they are logging PIC from practically day one.

A 3,000 hour (Alaska's min) fighter guy is a rare bird...probably only a guy who flew his entire career and retired from the AF will be eligible...not someone who got out of the military mid-career.

Make sure you do a your Military conversion. .2 or .3 per sortie
At one point in my quest, I had 1200 hours, but 1400 sorties...... that is a lot of take offs and landings. After the conversion I had enough for that magical 1500 to get my ATP. Most of the MGT pilots or interviewers understand fighter guys and their apparent low time.........You are roughly equivalent to a C-141 or C17 guy with 3000 hours or more. I wouldn't let that stop you from applying.

I don't know what they are thinking. I do know we will need to hire soon. We are currently negotiating a new contract. I believe they think they are going to get major productivity gains. I don't think the pilots are going to go for it. If we get a contract in April and they don't get the productivity gains they are looking for, look for a major hiring boom. Minimums can change in a NY minute.

F-4's A-4's and F-5's.......



Got to luv those .7 and .8s..........now my bladder is trained. I have trouble on those 12- 14 hours flights

I just finished a tour teaching fighter lead-in in the AT-38 (yep, the AF logs that as fighter time!) with about 600 sorties and 525 hours (0.8 ASD). If it weren't for a couple of 1.7s on cross countries over the weekends, I'd probably have a 0.7 average for that tour.

That'll go a long way towards the Air Tran buyout.