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A McDonald’s employee doesn’t do the work of / nor have the education / experience / expertise of a 5 star chef, whereas a spirit Airbus driver and a delta Airbus driver literally have the exact same certification and experience and do the same job. Anybody can be a McDonald’s employee. Not everyone can be a 5 star chef. The numbers of each prove that. Not everyone can be an ATP pilot, and spirit and delta draw from the same applicant pool. Again, McDonald’s employees and 5 star chefs do not come from anywhere near the same pool. So, I’d say you using that comparison followed up by your comment about you understanding business financials is contradictory.
I think you’re confused. Spirit pulls from a pool of cfis, delta and other legacies require couple thousand hours to be competitive. Spirit will hire with no degree and even though delta and United have dropped the requirement you’ll be hard pressed to find someone there without one. By saying we do the same work as united and delta pilots so do regionals pilots. We all transport pax from place to place. Did many trips well over 4 hrs while at a regional so it’s not all short hops. If you’d like to argue fleet type 737 pilots arguably do more work than Airbus pilots.
We aren’t all the same. We sign up to work for a specific company with specific work rules for a specific pay. That same job at another company might pay a lot more but will have different working conditions and different work rules. You choose based on what’s acceptable and what the best overall situation is for you. Spirit has never and will never be the highest paid and a lot of people are willing to give that up for what they determine to be better qol and better work rules. This is where spirit sits in the industry and until there’s a change in management or a change in the companies position or thinking it’s where spirit will stay.