Originally Posted by fcoolaiddrinker

Hired in 2006. Wasn’t a low cost. Narrow body Rates were better than jb, cal, amr, usair. I believe a few were slightly better but the industry in general was a mess. You were either in bankruptcy or going into it when oil prices spiked with the Iraq invasion or 08 financial crises. F9 was the last in so our rates and work rules were better than most until bankruptcy at which point we went from last in to last out. Putting us two cycles behind in part due to a two year contract extension with republic.