Alaska Arbitration

[tico]

Trips touching vacation and trips touching training pay credit. No real surprise since we were one of the few that had those provisions left. The company cannot assign trips to bring the pilot up to min. credit like they wanted.

Just spent some quality time going through recurrent training. The whispered word from the fleet captains to the rank and file instructors is hiring to resume in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2006. Crew planning is expecting open time and open time lines to vanish starting in June. We shall see........

 

[LAXSaabdude]

hiring to resume in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2006......

'06?! Holy crap!

LAXSaabdude.

 

[mach none]

Just spent some quality time going through recurrent training. The whispered word from the fleet captains to the rank and file instructors is hiring to resume in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2006. Crew planning is expecting open time and open time lines to vanish starting in June. We shall see........

How can open time and open fly lines disappear? That part of the contract did not get modified. We still have step trading and a certain % of trips remaining (90%) in open time have to built into open fly lines. Or did I miss something?

We lost the trips touching credit for training and vacation. Those trips still get dropped and still need to be flown...right?

 

[skid]

hiring to resume in the 3rd or 4th quarter of 2006.

Is this in an effort to cancel flights like last summer for not having enough flight crews to fly them?

I mean isn' t the rampers slow down/possible lock out and pilot contract bad enough.

 

[Yank McCobb]

Is this in an effort to cancel flights like last summer for not having enough flight crews to fly them?

They could hire 500 tomorrow and not a one of them would be on the line in time to do any good for a summer schedule.

 

[Mach 80]

How are things running at AK now that a week or so has passed from the arbitration? Is there a difference now in the cancellation rate and on-time? I need to non-rev on them next week!

 

[tico]

How are things running at AK now that a week or so has passed from the arbitration? Is there a difference now in the cancellation rate and on-time? I need to non-rev on them next week!

Hard to say...on time percentage is about 53% avg of ten to 12 cancellations a day...That is just from ops summary..have not bothered to go to work since april 30th so I can't say for sure.....Oh word from the ops agents is don't check a bag because it won"t get there....we went from 1st to worst in that category...probably will smooth out and be back to normal in a couple weeks...we always have had short memories...Dont now where you are coming from but don't forget that we have ORD, LAS, LAX and PDX all nonstop to ANC....good luck

 

[Mach 80]

Thanks for the information. Alaska has always been a class act...hope things settle down for everyone there.

 

[FlyBoeingJets]

.....Oh word from the ops agents is don't check a bag because it won"t get there....we went from 1st to worst in that category...probably will smooth out and be back to normal in a couple weeks...we always have had short memories...Dont now where you are coming from but don't forget that we have ORD, LAS, LAX and PDX all nonstop to ANC....good luck

Alaska Outsources Nearly 500 Ramp Jobs
Posted on Tue, 05/17/05 00:00

Alaska has fired 472 ramp service workers and given their jobs to an outside contractor in a move that will the save the airline $13 million annually. Alaska contracts with outside companies to provide ramp services in 41 of the 56 cities it serves. "A decision of this kind, impacting people who have served this company well, is extremely difficult," said Alaska CEO Bill Ayer. "But the ongoing turmoil in the airline industry, coupled with high fuel prices and pressure from low-cost carriers, puts us in a position where we must continue to find ways to reduce the cost of running our airline."


Looks like more love coming from the front office.

 

[Rhino]

This could go on forever...

AP Newswire:

The Air Line Pilots Association, the union for Alaska Airlines' pilots, sued the airline yesterday (Friday) in U.S. District Court in Seattle, hoping to overturn an arbitrator's decision that cut pilot pay by an average of 26 percent. The union charges that Richard Kasher, the arbitrator, and the arbitration board failed to follow rules that the airline and the union had agreed upon.
ALPA wants the April 30th decision overturned. The company has 20 days to respond.