Originally Posted by bruhaha

Spirit has lots of red eye flying here as well which you’ve indicated you’re not a fan of since you’re a early riser and a morning person, that might interfere your lifestyle.

There’s always flying that goes from ORD, DTW, LAS, DFW to Florida and then we do red eye flying to central/South America from MCO, FLL, and MIA for days 2 and 3, and then back to ORD, DTW, LAS, DFW on day 4.

Since you are interested in whether you can drop to zero. Yes you can, but the danger in that is that when you try to rebuild your schedule, the only thing available for pickup is all the undesireable flying is all that is available, i.e. red eye flying and weekend flying. So beware.

spirit will continue to have meltdowns like the one in August every year like they have for the last 8 years (except for 2020)…they keep saying they’re making changes, but nothing ever seems to change. There will be major meltdowns in the future.

frontier looks like it will be a larger airline with their plane order. Spirit doesn’t have anywhere near that, your relative seniority will grow faster it seems at frontier.

but in the end it’s all a crapshoot and you won’t know for 19 years if you made the right choice.

if you want definites, United definitely will be around in 19 years when you retire…. So wait for United to call. At least you’ll be senior to all of us when we’re beating the door down to get in with United after our respective airlines go under.

but if you come here, make sure you know your flows and memory items before you come to class, It’s the only training program I’ve known that if you don’t know it going into training, you’re still not going to know it when you finish training. It’s up to you to find out what you don’t know. New hire FO training, 4 sim sessions is all you get, then your type ride, though I’ve heard they give you an extra sim session now so 5 sims - that’s it - before your type ride.