The Alaska discount is alive and well
03-07-2023, 06:23 PM
#281
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Mar 2022
Posts: 739
I am senior to the Eagle and I have never come within 150,000 of him. It is truly a secret handshake for 1%….And by no means is it the senior 1%…..The 1% ignore the contract and make special deals day in and day out…..Zero supervision and blatant contractual violation are the tools of their trade
03-07-2023, 06:39 PM
#282
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2019
Posts: 791
Not really. Alaska is still the same mom and pop airline they were when I started more than 24 years ago. 90% of the airline is just out working crappy inefficient schedules getting paid hard time. A few percent in each base score some of the gravy but it is only there when the operation collapses. A couple percent of the seniority list and not necessarily the top couple percent live in the world of special deals and nothing but soft time…..They credit and “pay only” at the 150 to 200% level and make double what the rest of us make….Exactly the same way it was when I was new. If you want to work for Alaska and get paid like Delta then move to SEA with a good set of kneepads and dive in….
03-07-2023, 08:10 PM
#283
Line Holder
Joined APC: Oct 2015
Posts: 53
Once this year the universe showed me the glory of a day evening turn line. Pretty nice if you can hold it. The Superbowl and a weekend on schedule combined with an FO wide staffing crisis causing an inability to trade helped me get that one. The rest of the time my TAFB is 260-310. Don't really understand how that is good or what seniority level we are talking about to make the TAFB to Credit ratio a good one.
03-07-2023, 09:18 PM
#284
Respek
Joined APC: Jul 2010
Posts: 2,658
How did I know you were going to say turn lines… agh yes the good old fashioned turn line during the low season with some company hiccups to up the credit here and there but hey you know that’s available to every single pilot and everyone at Alaska lives in base and only 30 mins from the airport. It’s no wonder people are tripping over themselves to come work for Alaska under the new contract because look here this braille guy has got it all figured out.
My first line is this month and it’s 17 off 220 TAFB 68 credit with 53 block. When I did my bid it took 5 mins all I asked for was weekends off, massaged a couple of the trips to better ones and that took about 15ish mins.
My first line is this month and it’s 17 off 220 TAFB 68 credit with 53 block. When I did my bid it took 5 mins all I asked for was weekends off, massaged a couple of the trips to better ones and that took about 15ish mins.
Last edited by Cruz5350; 03-07-2023 at 09:30 PM.
03-08-2023, 12:17 PM
#286
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jan 2014
Position: fatigued
Posts: 1,402
03-08-2023, 12:28 PM
#287
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Feb 2007
Posts: 1,288
Double check the contract and contact an ALPA rep because I may be mistaken here, but if you don’t give 4 weeks notice you will not get paid for any vacation you have accrued. Keep that in mind.
03-08-2023, 01:33 PM
#288
On Reserve
Joined APC: Aug 2019
Posts: 13
