Alaska... smoke 'em if you got 'em

[av8instyle]

Everybody funds their own insurance today, it's called ARISA. No it's not personal freedom or liberty, you ought to look up the difference between those. No smoking, anybody could live with but the degree thing is too similer to Delta's stance and we see how that worked out for them in the 80's, kind of like AMR in the 90's. Bending sheetmetal at an alarming rate, that is when they were not landing at the wrong airport. It narrows the pool of prospective pilots and sets the wrong standards.

Nice. Friggen guys with college. Think of all the lives Delta could have saved if they'd only taken uneducated people.

 

[Scrapdog]

Scrappy...don't know...but I hope none of your future F-22 IPs who have Eagle or Viper division patches are FI regulars...

Hang on brother--yet ANOTHER fire hose for you....

Albie

Haha - ok, you got me! First beer is on me at Tyndall - then you're buying the rest since you're the rich LTC/airline pilot extrordinaire! I'm the broke captain (but I did manage to finish SOS by correspondence - and talk about poking your friggin eye out!)

OK - sorry...back to the thread...smoking and all its healthy and fulfilling qualities. Talk amongst yourselves - I'm a little faklempt.

 

[maru657]

It's not an intrusion into your personal life. They are not telling you what you can and can't do. All they are saying is that if you can't work for Alaska if you use tobacco. That's their right and their privilege. It's a required qualification for the job, no different' than SWA's 737 type rating requirement.

Sure, give the most pampered, regulated industry in the world the right to set standards that have nothing to do with the qualifications for the job. All while using public facilities and airspace. If the company's have the option to set those kind of standards on a daily basis then during a strike they also have the right to change standards and hire that smoking, dipping, drinking old crop duster pilot with a ninth grade education to replace you. In short, if the requirements are based on anything beyond skill and experience, they are false requirements. On the other hand if you have a degree you should be bean counting in some office, Not taking some blue collar laborers job, driving a buss around the sky.

 

[igneousy2]

...If the company's have the option to set those kind of standards on a daily basis then during a strike they also have the right to change standards and hire that smoking, dipping, drinking old crop duster pilot with a ninth grade education to replace you. ...

Actually, they already do have the "right" to hire whomever they wish during a strike. The NMB releases both sides to self-help, it allows the pilots to strike, but also allows the company to impose new work rules and hire replacements.

Later

 

[bustinmins]

Just think of it as a kind of intelligence test.

FJ

Nice!

 

[atpcliff]

Hi!

On smoking:
I quit in Grade 5, and don't like being around it now. I like the smoking bans in wokplaces, so I can go to a restaurant or dance club and not have to put up with it.

On another subject:
Is there a military conversion for flight time with Alaska?

cliff
YIP