Originally Posted by
Sailor
Wasn’t intended to be "braggy", but The prune Juice drinker was asking why we aren’t embarrassed working for Spirit!, just wanted to tell him how I felt, Jay jump to it with a different intention...
But in any case:
I don’t really thing we have the lowest Bus rates in the industry.
I’m yr 5 FO $83/hr UG time 5yr,
JB $92 UG 5yr some 10 AC's deferred delivery but still a great place for those who like it there.,
F9 $82 reducing the fleet future unknown,
VX $82 UG 3yr getting planes, spending money, zero revenue for 5 yrs.
G4 $83 UG 5yr Not buses, but same clients.
UA/CO $82 UG 15+yr, and everything its a little complicated there.
US $75 UG 14yr, Another complicated place to work, about to get very complicated
DL $106 UG 13yr, Great place.
And then SW, and you and I know we are all under pay if we compare.
So after all, Spirit isn’t a bad place, with growth planned, checks keep showing up, for the most part we can tweak the schedules to our liking, and not so bad work rules, drive to work, bla bla.
Carrying on, NP.
I'm not embarrassed to work for Spirit, although I am embarrassed
for Spirit when someone mentions things like MILF ads. For all it's flaws, Spirit has managed to pay me every two weeks for the last thirteen years and thanks to ALPA we've almost doubled our pay in that time span. If we had not accepted an trip average vs a min pay per calendar day back in 2003, we would have actually doubled the pay. So, to all of the "spirit is dragging us down" legacy boys, we've done our part to bring up the bottom, get off your high horse.
With that said, agreed.................
But, why are we comparing hourly rates when hourly rates are only a component of our pay? I may never understand why we play "who has the biggest xxxx" with hourly pay rates.
At mid seniority rates, I make $154 an hour; and by flying my bid line (one third from the top) I made slightly under $150K last year while averaging about eleven FULL days at home per month. Actual days off were Thanks to our "4 min days off between blocks of work" rule, those days off were in blocks of three and four at a time. Were I not a commuter, or were I willing to work some of nightmarish mixed red-eye pairings, I would be able to be home 15 maybe 16 days per month.