Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
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.
But if you lose 30 a month in May, June and July where will the operation be by then? Anybody hired today will not be done with training/OE until late summer at the earliest, so have they hired enough already to account for the 100 ish pilots that will leave in the coming summer. Having enough to cover April is one thing, but the summer schedule is a whole nother story