Here’s my answer when people talk about if it’s worth giving up some pay for the infamous NK QOL.

Go look at Delta rates, check out their 330/777/350 widebody rates. Then subtract their narrow body rates, and multiply that difference by yearly credit rates.

See we will never get widebodies at Spirit (despite well over a decade of rumors). We probably won’t at JetBlue, and even those B6 pilots who firmly believe they will have to admit it wouldn’t happen until post merger and extremely capital intensive to get any fleet to an appreciable scale…. Ten years from now at best.

So that’s the price we pay here at Spirit for our infamous QOL, the opportunity cost of the widebody pay we will never see.

I’m fine with not making what a 350 captain makes. I’m fine with not having the sophisticated product other carriers tout. I’m fine with the comments people make when they learn what company I fly for. I’m fine with always being on ghetto end of every terminal. With all that in mind, there is an updated market cost for what it costs to crew a narrowbody N-registered jet, and no one here can sell me on the idea that any QOL should make me feel comfortable accepting less than that market rate.