Originally Posted by
tom11011
Chances are Spirit just ceased all flight operations, thereby creating a situation where nobody could fly an airplane even if they wanted to. Also, I think modern strikes (such as Flight Attendants) only strike particular flights or days, therefore not crippling the entire company.
Not true. Management kept telling the public flights would operate as they thought enough pilots would cross the line to add to management pilots. On Monday, June 14, the CEO sent an email home to say that, due to changes caused by the strike, payroll for June 15 could not run. They couldn't run payroll but they could and did cancel all medical benefits, sending out COBRA notices immediately. It was a scare tactic to try to get spouses to pressure pilots to cross. It didn't work for two reasons and not a single pilot crossed the line. Finally, the company came back to the table.
Don't ever distort the true story of the Spirit strike with such speculative comments.