There's little (but not zero) PR-speak here and little (but not zero) passive voice or blame on uncontrollable circumstances: it's a decent enough post-mortem.
In most countries, especially in East Asia or central/Eastern Europe, I never see companies say in public "we messed up and here's how". It's always caused by acts of god, unforeseeable industry conditions, etc. It's never mea culpa.
But speaking of Canada, it'll be a cold day in hell before Air Canada ever admits to being the worst major airline in the developed world.
Then it goes on to cite a "picketing" event--that, hand to god, didn't cause any cancellations--while everyone knows it was a walkout.
Now, mind you, Alaska supports BIPOC pilots. Can't leave an opportunity to signal that hard on the table.
And, finally, Alaska has the best pilot remuneration. So good that the union and the company have been deadlocked for 3 years.
They simply can't resist the urge to write up this bunk. Nobody appreciates it. But everyone does it anyway. This could have been one paragraph that says there was poor management that led to a compounding effect. We don't have enough pilots. We should have adjusted the routes, but we just let it.
This is corporate whitewashing at the worst, and I am glad that the pilots have enough collective bargaining power to demand AlaskaAir to meet their demands.
I hate to suggest go on facebook, but facebook groups of pilots and general PNW aviation have tons of discussion about this, with many pilots themselves voicing comments about their opinion and experience w/ Alaskair.
> Now, mind you, Alaska supports BIPOC pilots. Can't leave an opportunity to signal that hard on the table.
Exactly, I don't want to know how they are training new BIPOC pilots, I want to know how they are getting the old ones back. The fact that they will have mostly inexperienced pilots is far from ideal.
Besides, I don't care if my pilot meets a BIPOC quota, I want the _best_ pilot they can find. Their situation is quite dire and they should get their priorities in check.
Does this sound concerning for anyone? Not only does it come across as racist, but I would expect a company would get the best candidate they can find for these life critical positions. I don't care about the color of their skin or ethnicity, I only are that they are able to excel at their job, as people's lives are literally at stake now. I couldn't care less that they meet or didn't meet some diversity quota.
They're mortified of people making the connection that labor has real power right now. They need to set the narrative that something else--COVID, weather, etc.--is causing less pilots to be available.
Which is that the airline pays peanuts and nobody wants to fly for it.
It's the same shit as the grocery up the street having a sign in their window asking everyone to bear with them because of staffing shortages. The sign's been up there for almost two years. They aren't fooling anybody.
I wouldn't agree more.
Aren't Japanese companies, especially transportation companies, well-known for owning up to their mistakes?
It's sort of a fake mea culpa, in which the culpa isn't in reality mea, but is rather more structural and nobody wants to admit it.
> We have done this to show our sincere regret that this problem has occurred and to express our willingness and determination to both remember what happened and how important it is to maintain quality
Imposing building. I thought it looked cool and found it fascinating that this flagship is a monument to an error.
How many vacation days do you guys get per year?!? Only retired people would find it acceptable to turn an entire day wasted on travel to Europe into a 3 days waste (times two if you plan on coming back).
Unlike cruise ship, they can't fill the airship with fun activities. That travel will be just as boring as a car or train ride.
But some people will pay more for comfort. And most regular people are incredibly price sensitive, they'll suffer quite a lot just to save even 10 bucks on an airline ticket, so your hypothetical airline doing this strategy went bankrupt.
Having worked in the industry previously, I’m not sure there are many city pairs where all business works but carriers such as La Compagnie have made it work for at least stretches at a time.
It's pretty normal to have all lie-flat business/first-class flights between major business centres such as New York and London. You wouldn't know about them unless you were booking a first-class ticket in the first place, so they're not very visible.
I think the prices are the same as normal? Otherwise nobody would use them, of course.
A business class only plane would have ticket prices equivalent to business class tickets on a normal flight.
Hmm. I wonder. Why. That was. Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.......
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/04/04/cancellations-c...
> An Alaska Airlines captain, according to a news release from the airline, averages about $341,000 a year, but pilots say it’s not just about money — they also want work rule changes, job security and scheduling flexibility.
So, money doesn't seem to be it alone...
> work rule changes
interesting.
“An Alaska Airlines captain, according to a news release from the airline, averages about $341,000 a year, but pilots say it’s not just about money“
https://www.alaskasnewssource.com/2022/04/04/cancellations-c...
FWIW I just traveled on 4 flights with Alaska Air and this didn’t impact us at all.
Active voice there feels like they're shifting the blame to their employees, which is never a good look for an employer. I think they did the right thing by keeping it focused on their lack of planning/foresight.
This seems to specifically imply that illness in training pilots and pilot trainers is the cause.
I would expect a more passive version to be "Trainings were canceled and delayed due to the Omicron surge..." which doesn't specify if anyone got sick.
It's going to be a looooonng summer.
I will have to check, but I don’t believe that I got a unique phone number in any of those emails.
