Originally Posted by
Planegeek
Can you expand on that? What does one have to lose going to spirit? Last I checked sky west starting pay was the same as spirit (pending the new skywest offer) and year two it double where as skywest is a $5 raise. Not to mention regionals are still parking planes and fos aren’t flying at many of the regionals due to saturation of the fo market and lack of senior pilots to fill crews.
Does spirit have that problem?
Spirit’s training pay puts a huge dent in that first year pay calculation (1700 pre tax). And I think SkyWest included something about a pay bump if you have 750hrs 121 time and want to upgrade or something; and all the new Captain rates offered at regionals are better than Spirit FO at any longevity.
Spirit is obviously a good choice since a person would get an Airbus type rating and a job at an airline they could make into a career should they choose. However, if money in the short term is the
primaryconcern, this might not be the place to do it for the above mentioned reasons.