Was that pay rate in effect when you were operating the F28 as well? Yeah, what a slap in the face to accept jets contingent upon a 10% pay cut.

By the way, Wikipedia says Horizon once operated DC-9-10's. Is there a story behind that?

Oh yeah forgot about that one. New hires will be forced into only 1 option for healthcare. A PPO with a 2k deductible, but they give you a 1k HSA you can blow in 1 doctor visit for your kids.

Wiki is wrong. I'd expect someone mis-identified a DC-9-10 instead of an F-28; (-1000's & -4000's). Unless you were familiar with them, they look very similar.

It was a DC-9, however it was a wet lease operated by another company on behalf of Horizon. It wasn't for very long.

A bunch of fo's up there are beginning to upgrade so you might get it within a few bids if upgrades keep going. However, unless they expand anc flying you won't upgrade anytime soon.

I have to wonder if the ANC base is working anywhere near as well as Air Group thought it would.

When the base opened, I remember there being lots of statements about how QX would take a bunch of flying from Alaska, but that base has had zero new flying for about the last year, and the last new city they got (Deadhorse) only got service because the oil companies guaranteed they'd buy a certain number of seats on those flights.

Wouldn't be surprised to see ANC close if/when jets arrive.

Nah.... When AS gets rid of the -700's, there's going to be nothing under about 180 seats. No 737 will be able to make a profit hauling people with the load factors they'll get. (An AS CA already told us the loads suck a lot of the time on the larger 737's, since the -200's left.)
I'd expect the Q400's will start getting more routes as the -700's freighters carry the profitable stuff, (the mail & cargo).

Think of what happened when we went from the -200's to -400's in WA/OR/ID.