Can’t get a job at McDonald’s and after 10 years demand they pay you like a 5 star chef. Same goes for why doing similar work at small independent owned businesses doesn’t get the same pay as the same job done at Apple or google. Working at or for that smaller business has its own perks that keeps you there over the big corp.

Just because I’m educated and understand business management financials doesn’t mean I’m a management troll. You staying at spirit is the same reason lifers stay at the regional. It’s because spirit offers you a qol at a particular pay rate that you have accepted. Staying just means the alternative of either starting over seniority or having to work at another airline based outside of your domicile gives you a worse qol vs pay than what this new contract has.