Looking at it from another angle, depending on planned growth and deliveries the company has 3.5 more years under the current contract, plus negotiation delays, and all they have to do is propose some type of “phased in” new hire pay increase and suddenly they have the better part of a decade to do a bulk of their hiring on the cheap.

Not saying it shouldn’t be looked at, hiring never stops even when growth plateaus, but that ship may have sailed to really help the biggest groups of future Spiriters. Shame really.