Soft costs... like properly staffing an airline?

Frontier has 51 planes and 770 pilots. They have good workrules (soft costs).

Allegiant has 76 planes and 420 pilots. We have bad workrules (soft costs).

Add in the fact that we have three fleets and we should have even more pilots per plane than Frontier does. That should put us at 1200 pilots. Think on that a bit.

Take out the argument of no overnights and we should still sit at around double our pilot group.

For those wondering this is the reason why upgrades have gone so junior. The lack of workrules and abuse that comes with being junior on our understaffed airline has gone that far. Keep that in mind as you come on as a newhire... people that have been here for years are refusing to live the way you're about to. And that's with a pay bump to captain. It truly is worse than anything you've ever seen and it won't change before a strike. The letter mentioned above has made that plain.