Alaska Airlines reviews

4.1

79% would recommend to a friend

(1,729 total reviews)
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Ben Minicucci

78% approve of CEO

79% positive business outlook

Alaska Airlines has an employee rating of 4.1 out of 5 stars, based on 1,729 company reviews on Glassdoor which indicates that most employees have an excellent working experience there. The Alaska Airlines employee rating is in line with the average (within 1 standard deviation) for employers within the Transportation & Logistics industry (3.5 stars).

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3.0
Aug 25, 2021
Recommend
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Pros

If you like Washington, Airlines, Traveling, and making a decent amount of money its a good place to be. Everyone says good things about Alaska Airlines, its comes highly rated. We have gotten to work entirely remote for the back office positions the entire time of Covid.

Cons

-Bad Director who is angry, aggressive, unsupportive, and miserable. Will pick you apart and focus on all the negative aspects of what you need to improve on instead of trying to work with you and coach you or tell you you are doing a good job. Makes for a negative and stressful work environment. -FP&A has extremely high turnover, work has changed hands multiple times so there's no documentation or training. Its a disaster. Beware. -People will bombard and harass you for the dumbest requests and create more work for you (cost owners and idiot senior leadership) -Month-end close is the absolute worst Doing anything related to a wage accrual adjustment is impossible and makes zero sense. The company has not established a decent way to do this.

5.0
Jan 24, 2021

BEST AIRLINE TO WORK FOR!

Recommend
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Pros

-Alaska encourages us to make human connections with our guests for they feel welcomed. So you will find Alaska Airlines Flight Attendants are usually very cheerful and friendly and a lot of that has to do with working for such a great company. 98% of us LOVE our job here! The other 2% probably just need a vacation in Hawaii as they are probably working too much. Seniority is everything. Everything gets better with each year you put in; from the trips to the pay to high priority status when traveling for pleasure. After a few years you will have way more flexibility with your schedule then most jobs offer. You can work more or less each month if you want to however there are incentives to working more than your schedule and downsides like losing vacation days if you don’t meet the minimums each year. Layovers in Hawaii Having a favorite restaurant in every city

Cons

Not super easy to commute to our bases if you live on the East Coast. Have to work weekends, all-nighters sometimes followed by an early morning check-in. You will miss major holidays with family and friends. -Friends (not true friends) won’t understand your lifestyle and push you away -If you are dating or married to someone who is insecure and the jealous type, either you won’t last as a flight attendant or your relationship won’t. Of course, it is always hard to be the one left behind while your SO is out experiencing new fun places, but a word of advice no flight attendant ever regretted choosing to be a flight attendant however when the relationship later fails they regret giving up their dream to be a flight attendant. You have to be constantly bright and cheery even at 4am even though you only slept 2 hours the night before.

1.0
Sep 8, 2020
Recommend
CEO approval
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Pros

the employees are naive, most of them are nice and just trying to make it to pension.

Cons

Management won't even defend their own life, tell them / HR that a fellow employee wants to harm them and they won't do anything about it, meanwhile they still expect you to work with the hostile employee.

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