100 hours a month is pretty easy to do, even in the slow months. Yeah, you work for it, but it’s available if you want it.

It’s the summer months where things get interesting. Chaos breeds opportunities. Sometimes lots of opportunities.

I’d say 120-150 is pretty typical, and I’ve even broken 200 once. Granted, that month might have been a fluke, but I know guys who are centrally located in Florida; they Y list themselves for FLL, RSW, TPA, MCO and their phone don’t stop ringing. 220+ on more than one occasion. Supposedly ACY has one of these guys as well. PHL, EWR, LGA, and ACY all fall under his 3 hour driving radius...

Increased staffing has been brought up, and indeed that might affect things moving forward; at this point it’s too early to tell because Guitar Hero didn’t start properly staffing this airline until after the summer crush. So with that in mind, I’d be happy to revise my original statement; while my W2 was well north of $250k, moving forward I’d say ballpark of $250k is readily achievable on fifth year pay.

And that doesn’t even factor in the DC, should one choose to include that number into their calculations.

Living in base, or close to multiple Spirit destinations, makes all the difference in the world. If you call Billings Montana home, not so much.