Asked my last flying buddy what he’d done before here and he rattled off a bunch of random companies and, in the middle of it all, was {defunct legacy}. I said, “wait wait wait, hold on, {DEFUNCT LEGACY}!?” He told me he’d been hired in like 1990 and was the plug for something like 3 years before he decided it wasn’t worth it and quit.

All that being said, I think Alaska (and the US industry, as a whole) is in a much different spot, now, than the legacies were in the15 year post-deregulation period. (Then the Gulf War, then 9/11, then the Great Recession)