Last week, a top Alaska Airlines executive walked slowly past about three dozen protesting pilots, stopping briefly to engage with each one, as she entered a building where she was about to speak
Will McQuillen, chairman of the Alaska ALPA chapter, said Von Muehlen’s staring “was perceived by many as an attempt to intimidate.“I can’t speak to her intent: I can only speak to how people received the interaction,” said McQuillen, who was not on the picket line at the time.
For the ALPA leaders, Von Muehlen’s approach characterizes the carrier’s approach to contract negotiations that have been underway since 2019. “We simply have never been able to get the company to agree to ,” he said. The last contract, in 2013, generally retained scope language from the 2009 contract, he said, and the carrier has indicated an unwillingness to make significant changes.
Meanwhile, McQuillen said that Alaska trails other carriers in pilot scheduling, which is also an issue in ongoing contract talks at the three global U.S. airlines. “Pilots at a lot of the other major carriers can move schedules around, which accommodates a good life balance,” he said. “Here, it exists only on paper.”
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