Why we’ve canceled flights, and what we are doing to get back on track

I wouldn't agree more.

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.

Aren't Japanese companies, especially transportation companies, well-known for owning up to their mistakes?

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.

> 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ll92ud6Nufw

A business class only plane would have ticket prices equivalent to business class tickets on a normal flight.

“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.