Alaska buying Hawaiian airlines.
06-05-2024, 06:07 PM
#911
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L O freaking L.
It needs to be restated that all of this is Boeing's fault. Everyone should get to keep their seat and we should be invoicing Boeing monthly for the expense.
06-05-2024, 06:18 PM
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Not starting anything, but worth taking a look in the mirror for those who are coming into this integration with that mindset.
06-05-2024, 06:23 PM
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New FOs playing fast and loose with reserve and sicking out. They already feel like they're short in the right seat. Displace CAs to bolster the reserve levels.
I see the logic, but these kinds of moves are a downward spiral.
You know what's funny? There's an easy answer to a right seat shortage -- hiring.
I see the logic, but these kinds of moves are a downward spiral.
You know what's funny? There's an easy answer to a right seat shortage -- hiring.
06-05-2024, 06:25 PM
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Wait so am I hearing Alaska pilots accusing the acquired of being overstaffed and hurting the SLI process for them when they actually are over staffed themselves?
Not starting anything, but worth taking a look in the mirror for those who are coming into this integration with that mindset.
Not starting anything, but worth taking a look in the mirror for those who are coming into this integration with that mindset.
06-05-2024, 06:31 PM
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Wait so am I hearing Alaska pilots accusing the acquired of being overstaffed and hurting the SLI process for them when they actually are over staffed themselves?
Not starting anything, but worth taking a look in the mirror for those who are coming into this integration with that mindset.
Not starting anything, but worth taking a look in the mirror for those who are coming into this integration with that mindset.
06-05-2024, 06:57 PM
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I’ll review my post, but I’m pretty sure I didn’t say anything about the possible merger with Hawaiian. That said if the merger is approved you can count on plenty of stagnation, Alaska is vastly over staffed presently, I have no idea what staffing is like at Hawaiian. I do know that if the merger proceeds that the combined company will be over staffed because mergers are not 1+1=2, more like 1+1=1.25 maybe. That’s before you factor in the likely fleet type reductions.
06-05-2024, 07:20 PM
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System displacements and downgrades are somehow viewed as a better solution than hiring to cover a base shortfall?
L O freaking L.
It needs to be restated that all of this is Boeing's fault. Everyone should get to keep their seat and we should be invoicing Boeing monthly for the expense.
L O freaking L.
It needs to be restated that all of this is Boeing's fault. Everyone should get to keep their seat and we should be invoicing Boeing monthly for the expense.
06-05-2024, 07:25 PM
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We're never going to be able to hire enough to staff SFO at the level they want. Why is this hard to understand? If you lived in or near SFO would you want to work at Alaska? People who come to work for us don't want to be based in SFO for the most part. Sure there's outliers, but trying to grow SFO the way they wanted was always a fool's errand.
06-05-2024, 07:33 PM
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L O freaking L. Even though we're adding widebody flying it will be a long time, if ever, that we can offer the kind of progression that United does. I don't disagree that the Seattle-centric mindset needs to die, but we aren't gonna compete for pilots with United in the Bay area for a long time, if ever. We need more bases somewhere off the left coast to really start competing with anyone.
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