Alaska General Discussion
08-31-2023, 08:53 AM
#925
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Heard there’s a 60% chance Alaska buys Delta. Or maybe it was United. Might be Southwest. Don’t quote me.
He’s been whispering magic nonstop for a few days now. He can’t stop apparently.
He’s been whispering magic nonstop for a few days now. He can’t stop apparently.
08-31-2023, 02:32 PM
#928
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A SAN base would mean half the bases (3/6) would be exclusive to AS for a major pax airline. ANC, PDX, and SAN. It would help retain and recruit more people to AS.
The NY base was a dead end base, in that where you got in is where you were stuck with very little movement. For a FO, it was a career dead end. Even if NY opened up with 115 pilots again, why would someone come to AS for that when the big 3 have a very large presence in the NYC base? It would really only make a subset of the current pilot list happy. They’re senior enough that they aren’t leaving.
PHX is AA and SW. Losing PHX sims makes less a case for a base. But even if they do, it’s a much bigger AA and SW base. It’ll be very small in size (relatively speaking).
Of all the cities out there, SAN seems to make the strongest case for a pilot base that would help strategically for the airline network, pilot retention and recruitment.
The NY base was a dead end base, in that where you got in is where you were stuck with very little movement. For a FO, it was a career dead end. Even if NY opened up with 115 pilots again, why would someone come to AS for that when the big 3 have a very large presence in the NYC base? It would really only make a subset of the current pilot list happy. They’re senior enough that they aren’t leaving.
PHX is AA and SW. Losing PHX sims makes less a case for a base. But even if they do, it’s a much bigger AA and SW base. It’ll be very small in size (relatively speaking).
Of all the cities out there, SAN seems to make the strongest case for a pilot base that would help strategically for the airline network, pilot retention and recruitment.
08-31-2023, 06:08 PM
#929
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A SAN base would mean half the bases (3/6) would be exclusive to AS for a major pax airline. ANC, PDX, and SAN. It would help retain and recruit more people to AS.
The NY base was a dead end base, in that where you got in is where you were stuck with very little movement. For a FO, it was a career dead end. Even if NY opened up with 115 pilots again, why would someone come to AS for that when the big 3 have a very large presence in the NYC base? It would really only make a subset of the current pilot list happy. They’re senior enough that they aren’t leaving.
PHX is AA and SW. Losing PHX sims makes less a case for a base. But even if they do, it’s a much bigger AA and SW base. It’ll be very small in size (relatively speaking).
Of all the cities out there, SAN seems to make the strongest case for a pilot base that would help strategically for the airline network, pilot retention and recruitment.
The NY base was a dead end base, in that where you got in is where you were stuck with very little movement. For a FO, it was a career dead end. Even if NY opened up with 115 pilots again, why would someone come to AS for that when the big 3 have a very large presence in the NYC base? It would really only make a subset of the current pilot list happy. They’re senior enough that they aren’t leaving.
PHX is AA and SW. Losing PHX sims makes less a case for a base. But even if they do, it’s a much bigger AA and SW base. It’ll be very small in size (relatively speaking).
Of all the cities out there, SAN seems to make the strongest case for a pilot base that would help strategically for the airline network, pilot retention and recruitment.
With the new terminal being built do you think it is likely?
08-31-2023, 06:11 PM
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A SAN base would mean half the bases (3/6) would be exclusive to AS for a major pax airline. ANC, PDX, and SAN. It would help retain and recruit more people to AS.
The NY base was a dead end base, in that where you got in is where you were stuck with very little movement. For a FO, it was a career dead end. Even if NY opened up with 115 pilots again, why would someone come to AS for that when the big 3 have a very large presence in the NYC base? It would really only make a subset of the current pilot list happy. They’re senior enough that they aren’t leaving.
PHX is AA and SW. Losing PHX sims makes less a case for a base. But even if they do, it’s a much bigger AA and SW base. It’ll be very small in size (relatively speaking).
Of all the cities out there, SAN seems to make the strongest case for a pilot base that would help strategically for the airline network, pilot retention and recruitment.
The NY base was a dead end base, in that where you got in is where you were stuck with very little movement. For a FO, it was a career dead end. Even if NY opened up with 115 pilots again, why would someone come to AS for that when the big 3 have a very large presence in the NYC base? It would really only make a subset of the current pilot list happy. They’re senior enough that they aren’t leaving.
PHX is AA and SW. Losing PHX sims makes less a case for a base. But even if they do, it’s a much bigger AA and SW base. It’ll be very small in size (relatively speaking).
Of all the cities out there, SAN seems to make the strongest case for a pilot base that would help strategically for the airline network, pilot retention and recruitment.
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