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A319
Also, for those talking about the "old attitude at Frontier"... If it weren't for us more senior pilots at Frontier taking pay cuts and doing everything we did to save the company, we wouldn't even be having this conversation now because the airline would not exist. So next time you fly with a more senior pilot, thank them for sacrificing their QOL and taking pay cuts so that the airline survived long enough to hire you.
Ugh, such a disgusting attitude. NO AIRLINE, and I repeat, NO AIRLINE, has ever gone out of business because of what they had to pay their pilots. The pay cuts you took were pennies in the bucket to the overall operating cost of the airline. Quit being delusional. You didn't save anything. You made a decision out of fear and irrationality to keep a check in your pocket. Not only that, you negotiated AWFUL terms on getting that money back. Who in their right mind would look back and say the paycuts taken were done with the pilots' best interest in mind 5 years down the road?
Oh, and it is the junior pilots that are affected most. Our first year pilots make less than a regional airline first year FO. Funny, because I only ever hear this tripe from folks on the top 100 of the list. You know, the guys who had a 6 month upgrade here.