Originally Posted by
HSCompressor
The only “smoke and mirrors” you and everyone else should be concerned with is the smoke and mirrors concerning our new contract.
I’ll give you a hint. When they tell you we can only offer you Spirit +1, because that’s your closest peer group, vote NO.
I've also started to wonder if the pivot to day trips/more domiciles is laying the groundwork for the company to point to Allegiant as the primary industry peer if negotiations go to a mediator. "The legacies aren't Frontier's peers because of the different business model and a majority of day trips afford pilots a QOL that is unattainable at the legacies or even Spirit."
BF explicitly said that companies need to fight against rising labor costs, and with all the potential problems a day trip-only model could pose, I could see this as a potential reason for the company to be pivoting this way at this time.
This is all speculation, however.