The "focus" of the contract should be pay parity via minimum guarantees. The emphasis should be on what the average Spirit pilot actually takes home at the end of the year on his/her W2. Not what the pay rate was to get said earnings. If we just got rid of trip averaging today. Replaced it with an "average" min day credit with out touching our current rates. No other change to the current contract. We would see a large increase in "actual" earnings. Maybe more than what could be achieved from the company's first offer. i.e. higher rates minus transition conflict.

The real Money is in the small print.