Originally Posted by Jimdunbar

I may be off base on this, but here is my understanding of the payment for delay for the May bid period. When the poo hit the fan in April, they dropped the entire month of April. They know that the pairings built for May had to be reworked and schedule dropped to a more realistic level. It saved Spirit about 6 million to rebuild the May schedules. They were also able to agree on the VIL proposal for May as a result of that delay in bidding. The pilot group was given about half of the money saved, or 1200 per pilot. I’d look at that instance as a gift, not an expectation. Spirit is showing more effort to help us out with furlough mitigation, we should help them by remaining as nimble for change as possible.