You're welcome! I'll do it again next week too

To each their own. I'll swing gear all day long as long as my QOL and pay are appropriate. Check out the 737 orders Alaska has set and then re-phrase your "no growth" statement. Check out all of them fancy new EWT EMB 175s flying around with Air Lines painted on the side on the west coast. Air Lines isn't as innocent as you make it sound. How many regional planes fly with Air Lines paint? Compare to Alaska and you have no argument. Alaska will get scope this year..that's one thing Air Lines pilots have done right in contract negations. 15 years behind is a little dramatic, kind of like your post.

Good stuff! Thanks for the info. Glad to see people getting in to class quick.

Hired Jan 26th, no class date yet. One person in my group got a mid March class date.

Stats:
5000TT, 4000Jet, 2000TPIC, 4 internal recs, NGPA, 4yr degree, all part 135 and civilian. I've been applying since 2013. My group was a mix of military, 135, 121 and quite a range in experience.

Interview is as described. Rainier flight service did a great job prepping me for the interviews. It was a great experience all around.

Occp is bang on. Sad but true.

Not really. Replacing older 737s with newer, larger ones isn't really growth in terms of pilots and upward movement. It will be growth in seats but no so much in aircraft. Vx and AS combined have aircraft growth average of about 2 planes per year over the next decade. That's not much. If mgmt parks the Airbus over time then there is no growth at all.

The word growth and AAG does not go hand in hand. AAG grows in seat miles (ie. bigger planes and Skywest, aka ERs,-800s, and RJs). There were roughly little over 1500 pilots when I was hired well over a decade ago. We now have just shy of 1800 pilots on the seniority list. Age 65 crowd started retiring at the end of 2012. As a rough estimate, approximately 30-40 pilots retired and/or medicalled out each year since. In addition, we've been losing some new hires, more than ever before, to better paying airlines. I'd hardly call 200+ gain, in well over a decade, "growth". The puzzle palace is beyond paranoid of hiring pilots who'll use this place as a stepping stone. If you want a job here, you'll have to spill your beans and convince these pea size minded people.
I've never thought I'd say this but I'll say it now-I'd leave if I can. It's a legacy carrier on its way to a ULCC. Spend some time working for the man and formulate your own conclusion. Better yet, look somewhere else.

Because there is more to life than money and growth. QOL is a big factor in my decision and I get the best QOL with Alaska by far.

You must live in base.

Do you have your apps out? Where would you like to go?