Originally Posted by
wornTiller
As an outsider looking in & trying to have a solid grasp of the current state of affairs of the contract, may I ask you to simplify this for me?
I'm aware that the Spirit history books are full of boats named "Transition Conflict" and unfortunately (for the pilots) this lucrative source of income has been eliminated. Preferential bidding has been enacted as well as trip & duty rigs, among other contract provisions.
When I click on the Spirit airline profile, it shows all the new details, such as PBS, 12 days off /month, the 3.5:1 and 2:1 rigs, etc. Are you saying that some parts of the contract are valid and others not? For instance PBS is active but the rigs are not?
tl;dr Explain for someone if they were to start at Spirit come Monday morning what they would expect.
Thank you for the useful gouge.
The rigs do not go live until PBS is live. We are still doing mock bids and there is some disagreement between Alpa and the company on how rigs are paid. It should go to expedited arbitration but there is another disagreement on whether rigs count as an expedited arbitration per the pbs agreement. So that's where we are right now. PBS live is stalled, no rigs yet.