Originally Posted by
CincoDeMayo
Clueless. I would say its all the multiple misteps by management and the Fed Gov helped put NK in this posiiton, and the company wastes a ton of money with many of the items you listed, but to say its not a pilots job to save money when they can is akin to cutting off that nose to spite your face. Pilots have huge control over costs every day with those 2 large levers between the two pilots.
Pilots saving money wont help save Spirit if they are going to fail, but to say its not our jobs to help save money is really a clueless statement.
Was at NK 12 years, reluctantly punched out last year. I totally agree with you. Reduced CI always if early, would not leave the airplane before GPU/AC were hooked up, so I could turn off the APU, always single engine taxi, start APU as I turned off the taxi light, I would never start the APU until I had 3 rampers with lit wands, because of the amount of times I sat at the gate waiting for up to an hour waiting for a few D cells, I would go below the wing to tell ramp to reconnect ground air they pulled to get me to start the APU. Don't even get me started on SETWA and sitting at the gate waiting for 15 minutes waiting for a jetway driver. Emailed fuelburn@NK about it nonstop. And you know what, it never made a difference.. They outsourced everything to the cheapest bidder and got what they paid for.
Because I am a firm believer in IYANPOTSYAPOTP, I will always do more, but I am not sure if we have enough control. Worked overseas were 4 stripes meant direct relationship with deity, and it did help. But apparently plenty of us are happy to do the required minimum.