Training a bunch of people they know will leave certainly has a price. The question is where is the company’s threshold on when that becomes unsustainable either due to supply (unlikely bc they will continue to lower standards instead) or because it become more expensive than paying to retain those you’ve already trained.

You can bet they are a part of lobbying hard for a retirement age increase. If that allows the legacies to pause hiring or even furlough then spirit doesn’t lose anyone except for a trickle of retirement and now they don’t have to pay to incentivize people to stay. They get stuck.

Our leverage is in the fact that JetBlues scope requires a JCBA before anything happens. That’s key and we should’ve had something like that but didn’t negotiate for it or didn’t get it in contract ‘18