Alaska Hiring

[Old School 737]

New bid out! 34 new hires on it!

 

[mbw]

New bid out! 34 new hires on it!

...as in 34 new vacancies? or 34 new on property?

 

[Fly High]

New bid out! 34 new hires on it!

My fingers are crossed and I am praying for a call!!

 

[igneousy2]

...as in 34 new vacancies? or 34 new on property?

We don't have very many people still out on voluntary furloughs, etc. I would expect most if not all to be new hires.

 

[Fly High]

No new news? All calls have gone out already?

 

[wscrj]

I'm not sure any calls have gone out to non-Horizon folks. They'll start shortly.

 

[Fly High]

I'm not sure any calls have gone out to non-Horizon folks. They'll start shortly.

Thanks for the bit of hope. For me, Alaska Airlines is the only place that I really want to be yet I cannot get looked at. I have done everything that I can to get looked at except move to the Pacific Northeast before being offered a job. I would move in a minute if given a job offer with Alaska Airlines.

 

[wscrj]

Hiring here is set to chug along slowly but steadily for awhile. Just keep working at it. Waiting sucks, no doubt about it.

 

[Going2Baja]

....except move to the Pacific Northeast before being offered a job. I would move in a minute if given a job offer with Alaska Airlines.

Is that kind of like the Canadian NW Territories that are in the East? J/K. Good luck in hunt. Go to all the job fairs you can including OBAP (sp?) I hear it REALLY helps to get a face to face.

Baja.

 

[flythere]

I'm not sure any calls have gone out to non-Horizon folks. They'll start shortly.

Are they still giving preference to Horizon FO's? Seems a little unfair, they require PIC time from everybody else?? Never understood that!

 

[Fly High]

Is that kind of like the Canadian NW Territories that are in the East? J/K. Good luck in hunt. Go to all the job fairs you can including OBAP (sp?) I hear it REALLY helps to get a face to face.

Baja.

LOL! Ya, I noticed it as soon as I posted it but I can not edit what I said incorrectly. Thanks for at least putting J/K at the end, that way I don't feel like such an idiot. In all reality, get me a job in Anchorage and I'll move there before you can say shazam! Thanks all for the encouraging words.

 

[Singlecoil]

Just curious fly high, what is it about Alaska that makes it the only place you want to work?

 

[Fly High]

Just curious fly high, what is it about Alaska that makes it the only place you want to work?

Before we took our first vacation there I would probably ask myself that same question. After we were in there once, we were hooked. We want to live there and I want to fly there.

 

[Singlecoil]

Before we took our first vacation there I would probably ask myself that same question. After we were in there once, we were hooked. We want to live there and I want to fly there.

Sounds good. I would apply to FedEx and UPS as well. They both have ANC domiciles that go pretty junior and their pay is much higher than Alaska's. Alaska is moving toward larger 737's that don't work out so well in the intra-Alaska markets, so the future is a little uncertain for the ANC crew base at Alaska. There is no limit on the amount of flying Alaska can give to "regional partners" (no scope protection at all) so when the 400's and combis go away it is highly doubtful you'll see 800's and 900's doing Nome and Barrow. Seasonally they will, but I don't see that happening year round. Those markets will be served by an airplane with an Eskimo on the tail, but it will also have propellers.

 

[AK737FO]

I agree with Singlecoil. Cloudy the future is for the ANC base.

If we don't see a 700 CQ or at least our remaining 700's based in ANC by 2016, then the base is all but gone. 800's and 900's just don't work in the bush.
As soon as the Govt runs out of money and stops EAS and bypass mail - then the only jet service in the State will be to JNU, ANC and FAI (and FAI will be seasonal). Not trying to be doom and gloom, but this State better get used to the idea of turbo props. Without a small(er) 737 and the ability to haul freight (combi or freighter), the era of jet service "in State" is history.