Originally Posted by fishforfun

I UNDERSTAND CURRENT SPIRIT PAY RATES ARE BELOW OUR TA!!

Spirit management offered basically the exact same rates we are currently discussing in our TA for their current negotiations and were rejected. It was offered to the union in December of 2015. That proposal from the company topped out at $200 for year 1 and $232 for year 5 for captains. Sound familiar? FO rates were offered to top out at $128 for DOS and $142 for year 5. Again, for those of you that can't seem to keep up, THESE WERE REJECTED BY THE SPIRIT UNION!

So Spririt has much better work rules than us and rejects an offer that we are staring at. Sounds like we will be the bottom very soon after signing this, right where we belong.

No one has bothered to answer why it only took 3 months to go from start to finish in the most contentious sections of a pilot contract. Maybe it was just out of the goodness of their hearts. Or maybe the union was just so intimidating. GMAFB.