Originally Posted by
Asiabound
The only negative thing about what you asked above is overtime. OT is tough to come by here unless you're based in MCO or FLL, guys might argue with me and there are exceptions, but it works a little different at Spirit. You can pick up open-time trips on days off IF you are a lineholder, but it's only at straight-pay. In order to get 200% you need to list for what they call X/Y list and if they call you and you take it? Then you get 200%. Not the best system IMO, but you can still easily pick up to about 90 hours credit once you are a line-holder. Other airlines you can pick up OT willy nilly at 200%, at Spirit they have to call you.
I don't know what's going on lately, the last few months the MCO FO Open Time pot has been absolutely barren except for the 14 hour 4 day red eye trips... I take a peek at FLL as well since its in driving distance and same story. I know October/September are slower months but there's not even an option to pick up a straight time trip. First time I ever thought that B6's no picking up in other bases was a good idea... I'd still rather have it our way but seriously it's a wasteland in open time. I showed it to the Captain on last trip, plenty of stuff in their open time, he couldn't believe how it was on the FO side.