Originally Posted by
Lobaeux
Admittedly I haven't been at Spirit long, but I've yet to experience this.
Every flight, the pax have been very nice, thanking the FAs and pilots as they get off the plane, I've heard nary a complaint. Most complaints filed have been due to being late or lost baggage, something pilots have very little control over.
Complaints about Spirit on social media come in two categories:
1. People who expect gold standard treatment, but only want to pay rock-bottom prices for it, or
2. People who haven't actually flown Spirit, but had a sister, brother, uncle, friend, friend of a friend, etc., who have and can't believe you have to pay all those fees (which, btw, you pay for on other airlines, they're just bundled into the price, or if you actually read any of the small print, or change your behavior slightly, you won't have to pay).
Don't equate flying as a ticket paying customer to flying on Spirit aircraft as a flight crew member. I'm not an expert, but as I understand it, Spirit has a fantastic contract, great work rules, is making gobs of money and the planes have been built in this century.
Best of luck to those at F9 and those getting ready to interview.
I didn't mean to imply that working for the next Spirit would necessarily be a bad thing. As I mentioned, the Spirit pilots seem to be generally happy. Admittedly I was a little surprised by this, because I figured that the majority of Spirit customers would be like "customer #1" that you described above and I would've thought that would have a trickle down effect to the gate agents, flight attendants, etc...but it sounds like that is not the case (which I am happy to hear).
I wish for nothing but the best for Frontier, from the pilots on down. From what I can gather the pilot group as a whole is a solid group that is willing to fight together for what they deserve. Hopefully that's how it will continue as everything plays out.