InTrail

Word to the wise. Working for Spirit will cost you a quarter million dollars the first couple if years. Between first year pay and what you could have made in the left seat where you were before, you lose. That was a danged expensive Bus rating

viper548

Spirit is probably better long term than staying at a regional though.

say again

Awwww, someone didn't do there research. The only person to fault is yourself, not Spirit.

labbats

The more people that leave and the less that show to class the faster you get a contract.

The wise move would be to support the original poster.

say again

He made it seem like it was Spirit's fault that he went there knowing the rates. There are better ways to go about things, and the "poor pity me" isn't one of them.

KC135

I guarantee you that you won't post when you make a lot more at the end of your career vs had you stayed at your previous job. All negative, no positive on these forums. At that point you will probably post you could have made another couple million had FDX called you instead.

Aquaticus

The extra type rating probably made you more marketable for the legacy job in whatever algorithm that they used. It also gave you a little bit more confidence knowing you went through another airlines' training without a failure. The legacy HR that hired you was looking at that as a positive as well.

The LCC's are the stepping stones going forward. The bottom 1/3 of every large LCC's pilot group will continually turn over. In 5 years who will the LCC's be hiring? You are going to be flying to south america with a brand new 1500 hr FO sitting in the right seat and you will be a 3-4 yr captain in the left. What leverage for a good contract will your LCC pilot group have? The LCC I came from was hiring regional FO's to trap them for the long term and many were looking at life through rose colored glasses. By the time they are competitive for a legacy job they will have too much invested in the LCC to leave.

For some staying at a LCC is a no brainer. The money won't be as important as living in base, the fast upgrade, or just general QOL. Fortunately, the backlog in hiring at the legacies is starting to loosen up. I think the people getting calls from LCC's will be getting calls from legacies within a few months of each other and it will put an end to this forced jumping around.

Poppachubby

Ughhhh.........please for the love of God, leave Spirit. Your an embarrassment! Oh I get it. Nobody else will hire your whiney ass!

ULLI

How much did UAL/AA/DAL cost guys that were furloughed for 10+ years? Just saying

SkywardAZ

You are living under the assumption that you had that money to begin with. An assumption of a job that you "should" have had. In other words, you my friend will receive ridicule of this message board.