Alaska Hawaiian Merger Serious Version

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

Is there a flow from QX to AS? No I'm not interested...hehe. Just curious.

It’s called a Pathways program.


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The Alaska Airlines Pilot Pathways Program provides the most direct flight path for Horizon pilots seeking to become pilots for Alaska Airlines.

Horizon and Alaska Airlines share a goal to create a rewarding career at the Air Group family of airlines and to make the move from regional to a major airline, if desired, as simple as possible. Each year we recruit internally from Horizon for Alaska new pilot hires via the Pilot Pathways program.

How it works​

Entering the Program​

• For current Horizon pilots, application to the Pathways Program will be available quarterly.
• For Horizon pilot candidates, interviews for both Horizon and Alaska will take place the same day.
• Horizon Pilot Development Program pilots are eligible to apply upon joining Horizon.

Getting Ready for Takeoff​

Current or potential Horizon pilots who successfully complete a Pilot Pathways Program interview with Alaska Airlines will be placed onto the Alaska Airlines “Pathways List” in order of their Horizon seniority number. Pilots will remain on the Pathways List until they withdraw from the program, become ineligible to participate, or they are offered a pilot position with Alaska Airlines.

For Horizon pilots on the Pathways List, the experience required to be eligible for a class date at Alaska Airlines is to complete 1,000 hours as a pilot in command at Horizon Air.

Welcome to Alaska!​

Class dates will be assigned based on Horizon seniority.

Alaska Airlines will not receive from Horizon any background checks nor confidential medical information not subject to PRIA. Alaska Airlines will conduct its own background checks including a PRIA review.

Things Change...​

• A pilot may voluntarily request to defer or withdraw their name from the Pathways List.
• A pilot who requests to defer an Alaska hire date may request to be reinstated after a deferral, by providing 90-day notice.

 

[Skåning]

Why you so worried? We about to start hiring and upgrading again!

He’ll find someone to complain about. Already is a loud no voter.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Correct. Have to stay below 90.



Why you so worried? We about to start hiring and upgrading again! You might see short call reserve lol

How senior do you think those 20 upgrades will go

It’s not that I’m worried it’s just that pilots being pilots there will still be guys picking up over vacation etc even when their “brothers” are on the street.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

I'll do you one better, I bid RES this month because I couldn't be arsed to delve into the bid package like I normally do. I then went and threw some individual vacation days around on the awarded days, and the net result is I probably will wind up not working too much.

I have some family things to do, Mom turns 70 (!) and the fiancee's birthday is at the end of the month and trying to twist and turn a regular line into accommodating that became "nah, I don't have the energy to gnats-ass this."

I haven’t bid since they added extra pay to short call reserve. Since I’m unstacked every weekend and forced into long call convertible reserve there’s really no point.

Since there’s so much more flying this month I may try to bid for a line but it’s 99.4% pointless.

 

[Roger Roger]

I actually like my job plenty. I also like having vacation time.

And I like the Company having to staff appropriately for it as a known absence.

And I have the same sentiment towards basically any other sort of pre-planned leave while we're on the topic too.

("No, you cannot pick up over your parental leave.")

Coming from a 135 background, the availability and the ways to use vacation strategically is mind blowing. I turned 8 days of vacation in May into 23 days off without much effort (of course in our normally sunniest month I got like 2 days of sun and a handful more with no rain but c’est la vie). Especially with this commute I literally can’t imagine not using every hour of vacation that the company gives, and I look forward eagerly to that year 5 marker when I can scrub an entire bid period.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

I haven’t bid since they added extra pay to short call reserve. Since I’m unstacked every weekend and forced into long call convertible reserve there’s really no point.

Since there’s so much more flying this month I may try to bid for a line but it’s 99.4% pointless.

Our system is such that I can make decisions in it, er, tactically and to my advantage even with the saturation-bombing of short call, and I'm fortunate enough to be pretty high up in the B-side in this category—plus, they've pointed the new-hire cannon at this category too.

 

[Autothrust Blue]

Coming from a 135 background, the availability and the ways to use vacation strategically is mind blowing. I turned 8 days of vacation in May into 23 days off without much effort (of course in our normally sunniest month I got like 2 days of sun and a handful more with no rain but c’est la vie). Especially with this commute I literally can’t imagine not using every hour of vacation that the company gives, and I look forward eagerly to that year 5 marker when I can scrub an entire bid period.

It's the Starship Troopers "I'm doing MY part" gif/gif spliced with what's his name saying "I ain't doin' [bleep]"

 

[SurferLucas]

Is there a flow from QX to AS? No I'm not interested...hehe. Just curious.

You could, but why would you want to...

 

[ShortField]

Coming from a 135 background, the availability and the ways to use vacation strategically is mind blowing. I turned 8 days of vacation in May into 23 days off without much effort (of course in our normally sunniest month I got like 2 days of sun and a handful more with no rain but c’est la vie). Especially with this commute I literally can’t imagine not using every hour of vacation that the company gives, and I look forward eagerly to that year 5 marker when I can scrub an entire bid period.

I too took May off knowing it is statically the driest month of the year state wide. Here I sit with much disappointment. March was actually warmer and drier. I’ll try again next year.

 

[ShortField]

You could, but why would you want to...

 

[word302]

Forgot to mention this, but it is interesting. I mean I haven’t gotten a 1st class in a few years now either so *knocks on wood*. But there has to be a reason that so many super senior pilots are on the right seat in SEA. I get QOL for the lower end of that, but most of those folks would have great QOL in the left seat too. Which leaves medical, training failure, fear of upgrading, or just not wanting the upgrade. I’d imagine there are a few in the last 3 of those categories, but #1 and #2 have to be the biggest group occupying that space. So yeah, it’ll be interesting to see how the August bid pans out.

There's also a huge contingent with a side hustle that have no intention of upgrading ever.

 

[Roger Roger]

I too took May off knowing it is statically the driest month of the year state wide. Here I sit with much disappointment. March was actually warmer and drier. I’ll try again next year.

Womp womp. It’s aight, I had a lot of • to do around the house (still didn’t get all of it done) and terrible loads and almost getting the boot in KTN notwithstanding we managed a quick weekend getaway to Dinofest in Seattle

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

Coming from a 135 background, the availability and the ways to use vacation strategically is mind blowing. I turned 8 days of vacation in May into 23 days off without much effort (of course in our normally sunniest month I got like 2 days of sun and a handful more with no rain but c’est la vie). Especially with this commute I literally can’t imagine not using every hour of vacation that the company gives, and I look forward eagerly to that year 5 marker when I can scrub an entire bid period.

View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKVR3LnBJnn/?igsh=OTV2bjBvODdoeHVx

 

[///AMG]

There's also a huge contingent with a side hustle that have no intention of upgrading ever.

Yeah I feel that. I'm not that extreme, but I'll say I am in no particular rush in any way. And there is that little 1000 hrs flown at AS first that I am chipping away at about as slowly as the turtle in the turtle and the hare.

 

[word302]

Yeah I feel that. I'm not that extreme, but I'll say I am in no particular rush in any way. And there is that little 1000 hrs flown at AS first that I am chipping away at about as slowly as the turtle in the turtle and the hare.

Hah, I knocked out my 1000 ASAP cuz upgrades were dropping like crazy. Now I think I’m at 180 block for the last 12 months.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

View: https://www.instagram.com/reel/DKdRyuuSlnB/?igsh=MXFwbGxscXdod28zbg==

 

[Autothrust Blue]

This is me everytime I take a 117 extension.

I don’t…do…that.

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

I don’t…do…that.

You know you don’t work at Spirit anymore, right? I’ll do it. Over 500 grand a year, yeah I’ll do it.

(Assuming I’m not fatigued by adding an additional 2 hrs).

 

[BobDDuck]

You know you don’t work at Spirit anymore, right? I’ll do it. Over 500 grand a year, yeah I’ll do it.

(Assuming I’m not fatigued by adding an additional 2 hrs).

When it's 4:30 in the morning, sometimes it is hard to know if you will be fatigued in 15 hours when you are dealing with massive thunderstorms over the equator and an Indonesian controller that isn't being very helpful.

 

[BEEF SUPREME]

When it's 4:30 in the morning, sometimes it is hard to know if you will be fatigued in 15 hours when you are dealing with massive thunderstorms over the equator and an Indonesian controller that isn't being very helpful.

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