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WayexTDI wrote:Interesting as Alaska seemed to have been the darling of a.net these past few years; where has the love gone?
usxguy wrote:
The huge number of schedule changes, forced overnights in Seattle again, last minute cancels with no compensation or sorry, and as mentioned, gate slammed in my face at D:10 after a 5 hr delayed flight ended it for me.
bubbrubb wrote:can anyone enlighten me as to how the SEA-YLW route is doing? Will this route be long-term? Im from BC but living in Seattle now and Im always cheering for new routes that connect us more
Aliqiout wrote:bubbrubb wrote:can anyone enlighten me as to how the SEA-YLW route is doing? Will this route be long-term? Im from BC but living in Seattle now and Im always cheering for new routes that connect us more
I don’t know how it's doing, but this route isn't new. They have been flying it since the late 1990's. I would like to say it's safe because of its long history, but I don't think that can be said about any low frequency non manline route right now.
452QX wrote:USAirKid wrote:Cardude2 wrote:
yes, I can confirm that.
N560AS (Spirit of the islands) still has the old titles but will be painted soon
N559AS (Salmon-Thirty-Salmon II) also still has the old colors and will be painted soon either into Salmon-Thirty-Salmon III or the regular livery and a MAX will be painted into Salmon-Thirty-Salmon III
and there is also 3 college q400s in the old titles (Oregon State University Beavers, Boise State Broncos, Washington State University Cougars) (Washington Huskies is in the new livery) but those are getting rertired
Are these five planes (2 - 737s and 3 Q400s) the last planes with the A being kicked?
560 is being repainted now, 559’s future is still undecided. The remaining college Qs with the old logo will likely keep it until retirement
There is a Q400 parts donor (429) in the full old livery in PDX that hasn’t flown in 3 years. Could end up sold, scrapped, or with a local college
NameOmitted wrote:Does anyone know the status of Steamboat Springs (Hayden-HDN)? It's on their route map, but there does not appear to be any bookable flights.
AC4500 wrote:NameOmitted wrote:Does anyone know the status of Steamboat Springs (Hayden-HDN)? It's on their route map, but there does not appear to be any bookable flights.
SEA-HDN & SAN-HDN both resume 3x weekly (Sun/Wed/Sat) on December 17th.
SXDFC wrote:452QX wrote:USAirKid wrote:
Are these five planes (2 - 737s and 3 Q400s) the last planes with the A being kicked?
560 is being repainted now, 559’s future is still undecided. The remaining college Qs with the old logo will likely keep it until retirement
There is a Q400 parts donor (429) in the full old livery in PDX that hasn’t flown in 3 years. Could end up sold, scrapped, or with a local college
Is there any plans on putting the College specialty planes on the 175s?
WayexTDI wrote:Interesting as Alaska seemed to have been the darling of a.net these past few years; where has the love gone?
F9Animal wrote:Gold 100k here too. And I must say, it's definitely changed alot and not for the better. The ticket and gate agents have definitely changed.
The video was nice, but it's hard to guess he is trying to blame the pilots. He is however blaming the shortage.
Chugach wrote:Gold 100K here too, and a million miler to boot. Things started to shift culturally for the worse when they gobbled up VX. I’m not trying to start the umpteenth AS/VX argument, but those two companies just didn’t mesh well culturally. Current leadership seems to have completely lost control.
I keep flirting with DL and UA, but being PDX-based AS still has the best nonstop schedule for most of the places I go regularly…the one exception for me is Houston. We’ll see. DL going year-round again in JNU makes it very tempting as I go there regularly, even if it’s only one flight a day. Maybe if DL shows up in ADQ I’ll finally throw in the towel and move over.
EA CO AS wrote:It’s false to state or imply this is intended to make the pilots look bad. There were and are a number of reasons for the operational struggles of late, but the pilots are NOT to blame. At all. And the operation is being aggressively corrected.
AWACSooner wrote:Well, another Sunday...another call to AS because of their massive schedule changes to DAL completely screwing over a bunch of future travel plans I have with them; this time it's six itineraries I have in September-November. Looks like DAL-LAX is gone...and their ops out of DAL are just a few evening flights.
This 100K will not be re-upping this year at the rate they keep dicking with their flight schedules...it's becoming a Sunday morning tradition: wake up, check my AS itineraries for changes, call AS to make the changes to something resembling a sane itinerary from the dumb one they tried to schedule for me, then thank the reservations agent for their time and tell them I'll call them again next Sunday.
AS just needs to fold up shop at DAL and consolidate their ops to DFW...it's apparent they don't give a damn about DAL anymore.
wedgetail737 wrote:In the future, I'm hoping AS launches more Canada routes, while bolstering their current service.
ramprat74 wrote:It’s not just the ground staff at Alaska, it’s all the airlines these days. The newer people just don’t care, it’s just a job for them. The days of having a career with the airlines are long gone. I’m glad I’m at the tail end of my “career” because coming to work gets harder and harder everyday. It’s like two different companies comparing dayshift (senior) and swing shift(junior). The sick calls are 5x on swing shift compared to day shift.
EA CO AS wrote:It’s false to state or imply this is intended to make the pilots look bad. There were and are a number of reasons for the operational struggles of late, but the pilots are NOT to blame. At all. And the operation is being aggressively corrected.
LAXBUR wrote:Seems like all the airlines are struggling right now? Not an excuse for Alaska, but seems there’s a post for each airline and their messes. I’ve flown Alaska and American a fair bit during the pandemic and really haven’t had any complaints outside of basically never getting MVP upgrades because of all the AA elites.
I’m making extra time for any important trips. Meeting friends in Vegas and flying in the day before. It sucks, but that’s the expectation for this summer.
SUNCTRY738 wrote:And if AS and B6 don't get their act together, we the consumer risk losing them both which will be too bad. They both have offered a great competitive choice in their markets to consumers.
I cannot help but wonder if the market dynamics and shortage of pilots will squeeze AS and B6 out of existence. We will be left with the larger network carriers and the ULCs which I think will be unfortunate.
N415XJ wrote:I'm booking a flight to BIL and it looks like all SEA flights are Q400 before June 16, and all E175 after. Is this just the summer schedule or are the Q400s being permanently pulled from Billings?
AWACSooner wrote:N415XJ wrote:I'm booking a flight to BIL and it looks like all SEA flights are Q400 before June 16, and all E175 after. Is this just the summer schedule or are the Q400s being permanently pulled from Billings?
With the Q400's being retired soon, it seems as if they're keeping them to shorter stage lengths.
N415XJ wrote:I'm booking a flight to BIL and it looks like all SEA flights are Q400 before June 16, and all E175 after. Is this just the summer schedule or are the Q400s being permanently pulled from Billings?
AC4500 wrote:PDX-FAT is also regularly on the Q400.
452QX wrote:AC4500 wrote:PDX-FAT is also regularly on the Q400.
PDX-FAT is a Skywest route
trueblew wrote:LAXBUR wrote:Seems like all the airlines are struggling right now? Not an excuse for Alaska, but seems there’s a post for each airline and their messes. I’ve flown Alaska and American a fair bit during the pandemic and really haven’t had any complaints outside of basically never getting MVP upgrades because of all the AA elites.
I’m making extra time for any important trips. Meeting friends in Vegas and flying in the day before. It sucks, but that’s the expectation for this summer.
I see this excuse made quite often for failing operations such as those at Alaska and JetBlue. Certainly all the airlines are struggling to some extent, however not all the airlines are allowing it to impact their passengers to such a degree. Clearly if many of the above 100Ks are finding a better experience by switching to the competition then you can't make excuses for Alaska. Alaska need to do better. Same goes for JetBlue and any other airline making sad excuses for their inability to manage through a crisis.
SUNCTRY738 wrote:
I cannot help but wonder if the market dynamics and shortage of pilots will squeeze AS and B6 out of existence. We will be left with the larger network carriers and the ULCs which I think will be unfortunate.
AC4500 wrote:452QX wrote:AC4500 wrote:PDX-FAT is also regularly on the Q400.
PDX-FAT is a Skywest route
Yes, it's currently SkyWest but it has been on the Q400 in the past.
LAXBUR wrote:SUNCTRY738 wrote:
I cannot help but wonder if the market dynamics and shortage of pilots will squeeze AS and B6 out of existence. We will be left with the larger network carriers and the ULCs which I think will be unfortunate.
That’s a bit dramatic.
wedgetail737 wrote:N415XJ wrote:I'm booking a flight to BIL and it looks like all SEA flights are Q400 before June 16, and all E175 after. Is this just the summer schedule or are the Q400s being permanently pulled from Billings?
It wouldn't surprise me if the SEA-BIL flights go back the Q400's after the summer season...for now. Before the pandemic, AS was scheduled to start mainline flights between SEA and BIL. But we all know what happened.
SUNCTRY738 wrote:EA CO AS wrote:It’s false to state or imply this is intended to make the pilots look bad. There were and are a number of reasons for the operational struggles of late, but the pilots are NOT to blame. At all. And the operation is being aggressively corrected.
EA CO AS: Can you offer any insights into why management has fought this long battle with the pilots over a new contract? I am not aware of another airline that has taken this long to settle a new contract with its pilots.
SUNCTRY738 wrote:EA CO AS wrote:It’s false to state or imply this is intended to make the pilots look bad. There were and are a number of reasons for the operational struggles of late, but the pilots are NOT to blame. At all. And the operation is being aggressively corrected.
EA CO AS: Can you offer any insights into why management has fought this long battle with the pilots over a new contract? I am not aware of another airline that has taken this long to settle a new contract with its pilots.
MIflyer12 wrote:The last Annual Report shows the Pilots' amendable date as January 2019, for those who don't follow UA labor negotiations closely.