Originally Posted by
full of luv
It's part of the double whammy the group suffers when contract negotiations have stalled for so long, due to the lagging rates pilots start to pick up more and more time to fill in the wholes of their income.
At some point the group finally gets fed up with the realization there is no longer a "negotiation" going on and all of a sudden stop filling in all the holes of the schedule.
On the surface, looks like a "work action" to an outsider, person left at the gate when the flight is cancelled, to a judge who gets a handful of selected posts as evidence from a company who chooses to make an enemy of labor, to a press who will complicity read any press release from the company as if it's fact.
Stay strong NK pilots, you fly the same Airbus product thousands of other US pilots fly on a daily basis, to the same airports as they do, with more people on board then they have with arguably less support from your company than they have. What NK chooses to charge for tickets, what NK chooses to do with all of it's profits is purely NK management's decision. Your job description and compensation in the industry is pretty well defined at this point.
This is a great post and is spot on!
If you are considering coming to Spirit, just remember that you are becoming part of the worst management/employee relationships in the entire industry. Remember that management has people on this very board, who will tell you that the QOL is great and that it's "better than my regional".
It's not!
The pay is bad, the schedules are extremely unproductive and your days off are only yours, if you choose to be underpaid by an even greater margin than the rest of the industry.
I came here 3 years ago from a large regional and it was my biggest mistake. If the things that are happening now were happening then, there is no way that I would have come here! I'm actively trying to leave.
Bob Fornaro is no leader! He has barely ever addressed the employee group in almost 1.5 years and now has created a hostile work environment for the pilots, by publicly blaming us for the airline's woes.
Stay away!