Spirit had 4 canceled flights today (<1%) and 11% were late
Southwest and JBLU had a higher cancel percentage and equal late percentage
Yesterday Spirit had 2 flights canceled (<.5%) and 9% were late
All Legacy carriers had a higher cancel percentage and higher or close to equal late percentage.
Our attrition is so low that the MEC can't even use it as leverage against the company by saying "you better pay us more, pilots are leaving." Pilots are not leaving in droves or even close to the numbers speculated on the forums and in flight decks. This is straight from the MEC Chair at the 77 LEC meeting.
Bendo was on his podcast last week, gloating about how his A14 on-time arrival is the highest it has ever been.
Bottom line is currently the attrition is not there and the meltdown is not only not here, the operation is running better, according to the metrics, than it has in a long time.
But its sure fun to act like it is.....that's what forums are for...