Originally Posted by
JulesWinfield
It costs the company a lot to have a constant churn. They're having to cut the schedule due to staffing, and we can't upgrade enough people to fly the new planes coming online. They are also buying more training devices and sims. For now, they are able to stay afloat by hiring over attrition, but that isn't sustainable at all.
Which is why first year pay isn’t the problem. We don’t have an issue hiring pilots, plenty of bushy eyed 1500 pilots on the next thread. Retention could bethe issue. As long as people show up to indoc, Spirit is happy.
We lost 30 pilots last month and it looks like 23 were way of resignation to another airline and 7 to training. That isn’t enough to move the needle. Retention or acquisition isn’t the issue as of now.