Originally Posted by
dudeskibro
Boredwlife,
I agree...I wanted to post something...but felt it was too negative...in any event, I was talking with a friend today how a furlough can wreck everything for a lot of people in one day, and take years to rebuild at such a miserable pace in Spirit's case. I feel like the next update we'll hear is, "we only need 2 for March, 1/2 for July, and then in September we'll refurlough for the fall"
I've had 3 pieces of bad news in the last hour and now this
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I hope to see you guys on reserve in ACY someday.
Also....if we're getting "3" jets, how does 26 people staff those jets? Wouldn't the number be more around 36...let alone 48?
Sorry for the bad news guys. My advice, if you are not within 40 from the top of the furlough list, dont plan on getting back in the next 6-12 months. I have no idea whats going to end up happening next year with staffing, but I do know one thing....Spirit will run the airline as lean as they possibly can. I know we have about 14 pilots per airplane right now, but Spirit cannot keep up the aircraft utilization that they have now. We need to get these things in the hangar more frequently. Its not as easy as multiplying 4 aircraft by 14 pilots and expect that number of recalls. Marketing runs this airline, and flt ops will recall exactly the number of pilots they need to fly the schedule marketing has planned. That being said, these numbers dont take into account unplanned attrition or the new flight/duty regs, so who knows...