Quote:
Originally Posted by Ala5ka
Lol as a nyc- lax commuter I can tell you this article is pretty spot on. Our product is a joke comparatively to the big boys.
Compared to an NFL quarterback, my ability to throw a football is a joke, but that's irrelevant because that's not how I've chosen to make money. This particular city pair is clearly not how Alaska has chosen to make money, or they WOULD have the lie flat seats and premium service.
Don't get me wrong, I would love for the company that signs my paychecks to be growing aggressively, to be competitive in every market, to have limitless resources to throw at winning customers, etc, and to still remain highly profitable. Unfortunately, I don't have any control over this company's business decisions and neither do you, we both just have to live with them (while simultaneously making this career as profitable as possible for ourselves).
So I'm personally disappointed by a lot of their business decisions, but I'm also not stupid enough to think that they don't have good reasons for making them and without access to the same information they have and the same analyses that they've done, nobody here is qualified to say otherwise.
Tell them you demand scope, tell them you demand industry leading work rules, tell them you demand higher wages, etc. Don't tell them which routes to fly.