Originally Posted by
LongHornFlyer
It is an injustice! The crew who operate the aircraft at that airport don’t have a place to park. And they don’t have a place to park because the city knows that pilots have so much invested into their careers, that they will pay to park elsewhere. And everyone’s argument is that I don’t work at the airport…neither do you, yet you have parking! Or that employee parking is inconvenient, and you choose not to use it, so therefore, obviously I shouldn’t have parking at all 😂😂😂
Incorrect. You do not report for duty in AUS and pilots that park in their domicile are reporting for duty and therefore work there. Pilots that commute from one Spirit domicile to another are provided a parking accommodation through the negotiated CBA. You do not meet either of those.
You were being provided employee parking at a cost as a courtesy by whoever governs parking at AUS. They have decided to not extend that courtesy any longer to a passenger that happens to be a pilot based elsewhere, and Spirit is not required to accommodate you as it was not negotiated under section 5 of the CBA.
It’s not an injustice, it’s an inconvenience, and you have to live with it unless Spirit opens a domicile in AUS, you choose to drive to a domicile, or the parking authority in AUS changes their policy.