Alaska Air Hiring
08-23-2021, 05:55 PM
#5181
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Live in base 100% of the time.
Also depends on if you can ride on our metal from your home city to LAX. Horizon or SkyWest your gonna have a bad time.
At least that is what the captain I’m flying with now gripes about constantly. His commute from Spokane used to be easy and is now very difficult due to Horizon being the majority of the flights. It used to be mainline was the majority.
I lived in Seattle and when I was on reserve I had a bit of time at home. Captains are usually pushed way harder than FOs. Usually.
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08-23-2021, 08:38 PM
#5182
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Live in base 100% of the time.
Also depends on if you can ride on our metal from your home city to LAX. Horizon or SkyWest your gonna have a bad time.
At least that is what the captain I’m flying with now gripes about constantly. His commute from Spokane used to be easy and is now very difficult due to Horizon being the majority of the flights. It used to be mainline was the majority.
I lived in Seattle and when I was on reserve I had a bit of time at home. Captains are usually pushed way harder than FOs. Usually.
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Also depends on if you can ride on our metal from your home city to LAX. Horizon or SkyWest your gonna have a bad time.
At least that is what the captain I’m flying with now gripes about constantly. His commute from Spokane used to be easy and is now very difficult due to Horizon being the majority of the flights. It used to be mainline was the majority.
I lived in Seattle and when I was on reserve I had a bit of time at home. Captains are usually pushed way harder than FOs. Usually.
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08-24-2021, 08:32 AM
#5184
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THanks. don't have any attachments so being home isn't the biggest thing for me. I figured holding a line and having a little bit of control over personal life would be better than being driven into the ground right now in SEA on reserve for a long time. Sounds like the LAX trips are better too. Commute would be under an hour but not on company metal, but lots of flights per day
Yeah it’s just with the way that lines work here at AS, with that low of seniority IDK if commuting is gonna be a good time or not.
As many have said this airline is not commuter friendly. Lots of early starts and late arrivals. For me no bigs because that’s when the traffic is light around SEA.
If your choices are reserve in Seattle or LAX line holder I’d think you’d have all red eye flights or difficult to commute to lines. So a lot of your free time is chewed up in a crash pad waiting for your am commute home after arriving at midnight.
The right answer is only for you to say but for me living in base on reserve worked ok in 2018. Things are different now because reserves are being pimped so hard.
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08-24-2021, 01:47 PM
#5186
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08-24-2021, 04:36 PM
#5187
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I know a lot of guys who do that commute. It’s not impossible but it doesn’t seem like fun. You’d be junior to all of them so it might be rough getting on from time to time.
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08-24-2021, 06:35 PM
#5188
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08-24-2021, 06:40 PM
#5190
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Joined APC: Oct 2017
Posts: 174
the jumpseat is first come first serve, but there are also guppy CAs who denies to take any jump seaters.
you can list as commuter who has almost the highest non rev priority, but that’s base on seniority between pilots.
you can list as commuter who has almost the highest non rev priority, but that’s base on seniority between pilots.
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