Originally Posted by
Ed Force One
Spirit management will ask for what they believe will lessen, not halt, attrition. Not a penny more. If they feel that JB rates will accomplish that, that's what they will ask. If they feel that increasing first year pay and nothing else will accomplish that, make no mistake that is what they will ask for. If they feel that it will take $500/hour to make Gen Z pilots get over the stigma of telling chicks/dudes that they work for Spirit, perhaps they'll offer that.
They could offer AK+1 today if they wanted to. But they're not. Think about that.
The issue is that there is no amount of pay that will stop people from leaving a dying base to go to a legacy or even Southwest to live in base. These massive displacements in legacy strongholds was a bold strategy that is going to sink them.
I don’t have hard data, but it seems like a majority of the people leaving have been here over a year, based on my seniority number. People are mainly leaving because of the displacement, lack of vision on the JetBlue merger, and the single fleet type causing stagnation. It’s pretty clear the aircraft they have on order are going to be sold/transferred to another carrier, while they increase operations elsewhere.