Originally Posted by
Forward lav
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.
I'm still looking for an NK answer on how many hours of vacation they get for 3 weeks of vacation?
In your example above, which I haven't verified accuracy, the counter argument is while they may only get 30 hours per week (if that's true), they also get to 3 weeks and 4 weeks before we do. So a 7 year NK pilot would get 90 hours of vacation, but a 7 year JB pilots only get 70. During the longevity years where JB and NK have the same number of weeks, JB may be better. In the years where NK gets more weeks, they may have an edge.
Still, we get more PTO and sick.
In the end, we shouldn't take either vacation/sick/PTO system whole, we should take the best of both, and maybe even improve from there depending on what our peers have.