Man, people will continue to leave here for Legacy carriers, regardless if we make great gains with this next contract, people will leave. I know of a pilot leaving Spirit for DAL soon. Their decision to leave is mainly based on the fact that they want to work for a Legacy carrier.

Spirit will not work for everyone and some need to fly for a year or so to realize that deep down, they want to work for a Legacy and fly the big planes some day. Some people want to tell people they work for one of the big boys and dont want to hear "Spirit, dont you charge for everything." Some people are bothered by that and believe they will find satisfaction in saying they work for a Legacy.

One this is for sure, Management wont care. They wont care as long as

Cost of Training a new pilot < Paying pilots more

In the end, so if we are losing (and I dont know how many) say 4 FOs a month, all training has to do is drop another 4 in each class. Not only is the problem solved but they probably just replaced a 2nd year FO with another 1st year FO. So why do they need to pay more outside of Section 6?