alaska info

[mach none]

I hope so. But don't count your chickens yet. I am still not convinced that is not just a carrot.

Carrot? How many have we retired in the last few years? How many are we going to retire in the next few years? Just to maintain the present size of the airline...we have to hire. Get over it and move on. If you are unhappy, do something about it. Leave or get involved.

 

[Z_Pilot]

A pilot told me that Alaska may go to an electronic application system such as airlineapplications.com and silver bullets will have to be submitted there in the future.
Is Celeste Green a big name in the hiring department?
She was at a job fair and resquested that I have LOR emailed directly to her.

 

[alaskaplt]

Carrot? How many have we retired in the last few years? How many are we going to retire in the next few years? Just to maintain the present size of the airline...we have to hire. Get over it and move on. If you are unhappy, do something about it. Leave or get involved.

It is not about moving on, being unhappy or doing something about it. What exactly are you telling me to get over? I just simply do not trust anything I hear from airline management until I actually see it happen. This is simply from past experience. I hope you are right. But, I will not even pretend to have the slightest faith in this management team to tell the truth. A lot could happen between now and the next "scheduled" bid.

 

[Jeepman]

Does anyone know of the place on BFI that does the sim prep? Is there another good place to go to prep?

 

[mar]

Start in the southeast

Does anyone know of the place on BFI that does the sim prep? Is there another good place to go to prep?

Juneau
Ketchikan
Sitka

Good places to start.

Kidding. Good luck.

 

[lumax]

Aviation Training Center (ATC) is the one I used over 4 years ago. I am not sure if they are still the ones to use.
www.atcseattle.com
888 708 2180
206 768 1332

Good luck

 

['72Gremlin]

You may want to look into PremAir as well for sim prep.

http://www.premair.com/

 

[ferlo]

Mach None,

You must be joking. Remember the last bid? They canceled 80% of it. Why in the hel* do you still believe that this company must hire? They can always SHRINK like they've been doing, they can outsource more flying to Horizon, etc. It sounds to me like you are slowly succombing to stockholm syndrome. If you "get over it" you just prove Bill Ayer correct that we'll take anything up the as* and fall into line just so we can be called "alaska pilots". Come on Dude, you need to get over it.

 

[unwashed]

Outsource to QX how so? We have cancelled and consolidate because of the Q400 engine problems and the 200 that is in most peoples mind a total loss. We don't have any extra lift at QX. Alaska at least have airframes on order. We have two a year coming for the next three years, wow watch our growth.

Horizon adjusts flights to deal with recent events
Sept. 2, 2005
Enough with the challenges, already! That's what many Horizon employees are feeling right now, as several teams within our company -- including Maintenance and Engineering, Schedule Planning, Flight Control and Crew Scheduling -- are forced to make adjustments to deal with major events thrown our way.

Engine modifications ordered by manufacturer Pratt & Whitney to all PW 150 engines on the Q400 fleet are causing Horizon to temporarily trim some flights from the fall schedule. The time-consuming modifications were originally estimated to be completed during routine engine overhauls but last month were put on a much more aggressive schedule. (More details about this and other summer challenges are available on this page.)

Initially Q200s were substituted for Q400s pulled off the line, with flights from Portland to Boise, Spokane, Seattle, and Vancouver feeling the effects through Sept. 10. Now additional cancellations and consolidations are on the way.

In addition, the Q200 that was clipped on the taxiway by a Northwest Airlines jet on Aug. 29 has been taken out of service for major repairs that are expected to take several months. That has required even more adjustments.

Markets bearing the brunt of the changes include Los Angeles-Sun Valley, where nonstop service will be terminated after Sept. 11 (two weeks earlier than originally planned) and will resume Dec. 15, and Kalispell and Missoula, where nonstops from Seattle will be combined on one routing Sept. 11 through Dec. 14. The Seattle-Spokane route will also be affected due to the replacement of a Q400 with a Q200 in the early morning and late evening flights from Oct. 29 through Dec. 14.

 

[alaskaplt]

If the company was really sure they were actually going to have another bid in only 5 months from now, why not just add all or some of those newhires onto this bid. They could make the effective date a year into the future and have no problem.

 

[Jeepman]

Thanks for the info guys. Does anyone know if they use a 737 sim or MD-80 or both?

Mar, haven't actually flown around Alaska. The closest is 135 around the San Juan islands. Probably the funnest flying job I ever had.

 

[alaskaplt]

Thanks for the info guys. Does anyone know if they use a 737 sim or MD-80 or both?

Mar, haven't actually flown around Alaska. The closest is 135 around the San Juan islands. Probably the funnest flying job I ever had.

I assume you mean at the interview. They use both, just a crap shoot. If you get the profiles before hand I would suggest practicing them on microsoft flight sim. Sounds crazy, but it is just about as good as the sim they use up a bfi. It helped me for just getting the profiles down.

 

[ferlo]

Sure we have aircraft on order. They say they're either for growth, or for replacment of older aircraft, Gee, I wonder which one it will be. I also know that there is a heck of a lot of interest in the 90 seat rj's across the street. We won't know what they're going to do until they do it. orders, options, expectaitions and especially promises, from Ayer and his band of liars and theives is completely worthless. I've been told on this forum for the last few years that I'm full of it and I should just chill out and take my meds, (which was funny by the way) but I must point out the fact that I am right 98% of the time. Alaska Airlines isn't my first rodeo and I know how these A-holes think.

While Bill Ayer publically feigns disgust at the other airlines terminating pension plans, behind closed doors, they're scheming on how to take ours. They have already tried for new hires and failed, but mark my words, they will eventually get their filthy hands on our A plan. It's just a matter of time. Make no mistake how ruthless these SOB's are. Ivan Lee inconvenienced Bill Ayer for one hour and it cost him 6 months of pay and God knows what to his retirement multiplier. These are not nice people. Another prediction, We will be living with the Kasher Award for 4 to 5 years. Not the 2 years than many think it will be. Because as history proves time and again, at all airlines, they will drag their feet until the 11th hour to make a deal. As far as a strike goes...that will never, ever happen. We are to materially valuable to the state of Alaska. I'm a realist not a pessamist. Judge by results and facts and see for yourself.

 

[Singlecoil]

Why can't we have a strike where we say we won't fly south of Seattle? Uncle Ted couldn't say much about that.

 

[FlyinScotsman]

Why can't we have a strike where we say we won't fly south of Seattle? Uncle Ted couldn't say much about that.

How would that work? How would you decide who would do the flying the most senior guys in ANC or???? Sounds good, but would it really work?

 

[sf260pilot]

09-04-2005 23:49JeepmanDoes anyone know of the place on BFI that does the sim prep? Is there another good place to go to prep?



Aviation Training Center...They are great...I interviewed at Alaska Airlines in Jan 2003 and went through their prep. I was more than prepared. They have really great feedback from the sim portion of the interviw. Good Luck!

 

['72Gremlin]

Have people been getting calls for interviews yet?

 

[SneakyJake]

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[tico]

Finally a little light at the end of the tunnel for us.....It looks like Bagman is the first head to roll...Hopefully some more heads roll along with his but his had to be first.... A couple more from the Anglers and then a tactical nuke on the second floor to clean out that den of gravy suckin', pilot hating, day maggots and we might actually be able to get our act together and run an airline for a change......oh yea... term limits for everyone....four years and you are out........

 

[flx757]

I'll gladly give you my name, number, and exact location on the "second floor" where I do nothing day in and day out except work on behalf of the pilots. Feel free to come by and discuss it anytime. I would be happy to listen to your (and any other pilot who stops by) suggestions on what I can do to improve the MD training program. Or, perhaps you would like to deliver the nuke yourself?