Originally Posted by
emj55
I don't get it. tv.spiritair.com says 75 new flight attenendants by June. Im guessing this includes the 45 from March and April. How can you have this many FA's and no pilot recalls? 3 new planes by spring. If they do a recall it has to come out by the 18th I believe per contract. Which is Thursday. Maybe after negotiations this week we should hear something.
I have heard the MX rumors about heavy checks keeping us from being recalled. But why bring back 75 FA's? But then again it is Spirit. So why am I even questioning their madness?
Mgmt is using recalls as weapon against the pilot group to try and gain some leverage in negotiations....and its not working. I want all the guys back just as bad as anyone. If they insist on no recalls unless we cave in at the table thats fine, but at some point there just wont be enough pilots to fly the jets. I can just see marketing handing over the April/May schedule to flight ops and having a major meltdown because of the lack of crew. They increased the block hours again in March with absolutely no increase in staffing, in fact a slight decrease due to attrition. This is a game they simply cant win.