Originally Posted by
Justabusdriver1
As of now there’s no reason to raise training pay. Classes are full at 30 people per class weekly. If that can continue remains to be seen. I’m sure there’s less regional applicants but they have shown they are willing to take cfis off the street. Classes also have probably on average 85-90% show rate with at most only a couple people deciding not to show. They are easily pumping 100 people through training each month right now. So they don’t have as big of a problem attracting people. If you can’t stomach taking a pay cut to get further ahead it’ll be nightly tough to leave your regional as a captain making $250k per year just to drop down to to 90k per year at a legacy. In the industry rarely if ever can you get ahead financially without taking a temporary cut.
My buddy was in a recent class. Since one had no new classes, they doubled up on classes the week after. 43 total people were supposed to show, only 35 did. Of those that showed, another 2-3 left for another opportunity. Leaving about 32-33 people showing up. That’s a weekly average of 16 people. I would t consider that a full class.
In this climate, Spirit seems to be a placeholder for new hires until something better comes along. Management needs to think about retaining NHs in the classes and the ones on property. NHs dipping to another company that would be considered a lateral move while in indoc seems to be a Spirit specific problem (though I could be wrong on this one).
If this is your outlook on how the company is doing during the current climate, please don’t be part of negotiations in the distant future.