Originally Posted by flyingpuma1

This ta doesn’t raise the bar for anything, there isn’t one single item in it that’s “industry leading” only reason folks voted for this is because of the bonus they offered (IMO). I do feel for the guys at Frontier and JB as this won’t help them at all, considering we voted in basically JB rates

You are ill informed. No one voted yes to this because of the signing bonus. This was voted yes because this is the best we could get.
We were told by the NMB we will never get released to strike. The company never met with the union outside mediation. With what we did get, the company’s profitability will be well below the industry now and the NMB felt that this is as far as they wanted to go without negatively affecting the financial health of Spirit.
We got the largest increase in pay in a single contract cycle in ALPA history.
So I think the reason we voted yes is because if we didn’t, the NMB was going to ice us for an undetermined amount of time while they went on to Frontier, JB and railroads. Losing $5,000 a month,no scope, no DC, no LTD (own occupation) just to vote no is a very poor financial decision.
Most captains in the middle of the pack will have higher career earnings than going anywhere else at this point other than Delta.