Originally Posted by
JTwift
ignoring any details about me that you aren’t privy to; one of the reasons for opening MCO was to entice Spirit, etc pilots over to UAL (so it goes). They won’t be able to hold that base for a decade, if they’re lucky. SWA or AA is the place to be for Florida if you’re a new hire.
the real reason is because United needed Captains and no one wanted the job in our current bases because our reserve rules were horrendous. So United looked where United pilots lived and opened bases. We would have had more if we didn’t sign the new contract.
but yes the enticing of Spirit and Frontier pilots was an added bonus.