Originally Posted by
daddysocks
The 20% growth probably won’t happen. There are talks of not growing at all in 2019. No more new hire classes and upgrades until at least July.
The per diem is not paid doing “turns”, only multi day trips. They fail to mention after first year the min pay is 70 hours. Most of the year lines are only built to 70 hours.
Flying around the world will shortly stop as with the transition to high density seating and no ovens on the planes the military will not do global missions on this plane. The company is not going to spend the money outfitting them with the necessary equipment to fly the Nat tracks past 2020.
The health benefits are good. The travel benefits suck.. it cost more to buy a friend a buddy pass most of the time then just buying a ticket off the sun country website. It’s better than a regional airline but doesn’t hold a candle to the big 6, JetBlue or spirit and soon to be frontier.