Originally Posted by
Grounded320
PanPan A bitter response.... Let me tell you I did speak up and I was not a fan of management. Unfortunately when I ended up at the alter, I was often standing alone.... some people just can't afford to stand up. I never operated a flight I did not believe was safe and I didn't care if the company wanted to hang me or not. The facts will show that spirit is in a league of its own. Yes, american, delta, united all have their issues, but what's going on at spirit is not happening there. If you think this is the case, well you better become better informed. As for the legal issues they are being dealt with very carefully. I take it your a spirit guy, you can't honestly tell me what I have cited so far is nothing but truth. I hope that public focus on your DO and others will put pressure to change the corporate culture and make your airline a really good place to work.
grounded, you may have covered your bases for you book, but I somehow doubt that you have covered them on this forum. Ole can't help but see where you have slandered him. BTW, my guess is that your posts are simple publicity stunts. If you wanted to help airline pilots, you would not be trying to undermine the ones working for
Spirit. Agree with their tactics or not, a lot of pilots (from both sides of the spirit political spectrum) have worked/are working very hard to improve our lot in life. Attracting attention for your personal gain is about as unethical as anything you claim to stand against.
If you really want to prove your balls, I will be happy to arrange a face to face with Ole.
For those of you watching this family feud from the outside, our DO is a seniority list pilot who was first hired as the DTW base CP by ownership/management three generations back (IOW's he was hired by the very people that now side with his detractors). He has fired exactly three pilots in four years. Not quite the heinous record grounded presents. It also bears mentioning that Spirit has survived these last twelve months, something that ten or so other airlines can not claim. I have problems with the way ownership views people in general, but taking out ones venom on one particular pilot/manager is simply out of line.