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mohammed is the BOMB!!!!
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I don't want to be alarmist, and I'm generally not a "glass half empty" kind of guy but I've been in this business long enough to see a few things ahead.
I think the reason the airline isn't hiring anybody, and is okay with retirees not being replaced, is because we have no scope language. I think if there is going to be a hiring boom it is going to be at Horizon, not Alaska. Everybody keeps saying, "they've got to start hiring soon for retirements". No they don't. Who said they plan on keeping "mainline" the size it is today or even two years ago. All signs point to a shrinking Alaska Airlines.
Why not? We have no scope, ALK ALPA, as far as I can tell, has never concerned themselves with it. Rj's now come in 100 seat models, and Horizon pilots are a heck of a lot cheaper. Recall that Alaska Bid on a mail Contract they knew they didn't have an airplane to fly. All our contract says about scope is that Alaska Pilots will perform all Alaska Airlines flying. That is the most basic scope languange in the industry. THE COMPANY WOULDN'T EVEN COMPLY WITH THAT. What was the big penelty ALPA made the company pay for abrogating our contract? 4 ANC pilots would recieve 85 hrs pay to sit on reserve. That's it. ALPA feels that 32 hours more pay for four pilots is adequate compensation for the company to throw out the contract for 1500 pilots. It doesn't bode well to say the least.
They're not hiring because they don't have any plans for expansion. This vision 2010 is nothing but the same old moldy carrot held out to pilot groups over the decades. The company says that they'll make so much money we'll expand by leaps and bound, buy aircraft and hire until the cows come home. What they'll really do is line their pockets with what was our money. There will be no growth, no hiring, and no aircraft. They are lying to you about 2010. History proves it. Not my pessimism.
If I was in the pool, I would find some way to get a 737 type rating and forget Alaska Airlines. Southwest is the only airline that actually does what they say. They plan it, fund it and execute it. Alaska Talks. That's it. Just a bunch of noise. No real planning, no funding and certainly no execution. Go to SWA and move on. Sorry to be a downer but I call it as I see it. Hoping for a Boom after the TA is either signed or shoved down our throats is futile.
I think the reason the airline isn't hiring anybody, and is okay with retirees not being replaced, is because we have no scope language. I think if there is going to be a hiring boom it is going to be at Horizon, not Alaska. Everybody keeps saying, "they've got to start hiring soon for retirements". No they don't. Who said they plan on keeping "mainline" the size it is today or even two years ago. All signs point to a shrinking Alaska Airlines.
Why not? We have no scope, ALK ALPA, as far as I can tell, has never concerned themselves with it. Rj's now come in 100 seat models, and Horizon pilots are a heck of a lot cheaper. Recall that Alaska Bid on a mail Contract they knew they didn't have an airplane to fly. All our contract says about scope is that Alaska Pilots will perform all Alaska Airlines flying. That is the most basic scope languange in the industry. THE COMPANY WOULDN'T EVEN COMPLY WITH THAT. What was the big penelty ALPA made the company pay for abrogating our contract? 4 ANC pilots would recieve 85 hrs pay to sit on reserve. That's it. ALPA feels that 32 hours more pay for four pilots is adequate compensation for the company to throw out the contract for 1500 pilots. It doesn't bode well to say the least.
They're not hiring because they don't have any plans for expansion. This vision 2010 is nothing but the same old moldy carrot held out to pilot groups over the decades. The company says that they'll make so much money we'll expand by leaps and bound, buy aircraft and hire until the cows come home. What they'll really do is line their pockets with what was our money. There will be no growth, no hiring, and no aircraft. They are lying to you about 2010. History proves it. Not my pessimism.
If I was in the pool, I would find some way to get a 737 type rating and forget Alaska Airlines. Southwest is the only airline that actually does what they say. They plan it, fund it and execute it. Alaska Talks. That's it. Just a bunch of noise. No real planning, no funding and certainly no execution. Go to SWA and move on. Sorry to be a downer but I call it as I see it. Hoping for a Boom after the TA is either signed or shoved down our throats is futile.
