Originally Posted by
Dukeuno
You do know SWA wasn’t doing this back in the 90s when they were trying to grow. ( they did have stock options and profit sharing. They had a better management team that cared). Their pay was at the bottom or close to the bottom of the industry. So you can’t compare Spirit to SWA right now. SWA 700 planes, 9200 pilots, Spirit 115 planes around 2000 pilots. Would I like more, hell ya, but I know this place needs to grow and I believe this is the best we can achieve right now. It’s not worth me to lose the LTD, Scope, DC, and pay raise to wait for who knows how long and who knows for how much more? Maybe it goes the other way and we could actually lose some of these gains, no one knows. You willing to gamble on that?
Plus if you want SWA pay and benefits they are hiring around 750 this year.
Good thing Spirit management has pilots like you to help them through the hard times. It is pretty tough right now. Those corporate tax cuts sure is hitting their pockets, and now they need that low cost pilot contract to be able to afford those darn expensive airplanes that they really want so bad since they are just so shiny jet yellow! Ouuuhhhh Yeah!