a week of vacation at spirit is worth 30 hrs.

a week of vacation at JetBlue is worth 35 hours.

Spirit min guarantee is 72 hrs so the company has to find you 42 hours of flying for the month

JB min guarantee is 70 hrs so the company only has to find 35 hrs of flying, yielding more days off in a vaca month.

spirit accrues 5 hrs of sick time per month

JB accrues 6 hours of PTO per month

thats 12 hrs less time or roughly 2.5 less sick days per year.

if spirit pilots choose to sell the sick time they have, they sell it at a $30/hr discount to JB pilots.