That was the original plan at Spirit, but we’re unable to handle that. Lucky to get 40/mo through. CA upgrades and new hires were scaled way back. It’s obvious that we’ll just take less planes than we’ve ordered.

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they’ll retire thirsty ceos and take shiny new neos instead. Real growth with be capped; perhaps, but casm will decrease. Which is the point.

In last week's interviews it was confirmed that new hire hotels will be provided.

Really? That’s a small step but in the right direction.

I wonder how the Union was notified?

Just what we were told in person during interviews.

This post.

Only joking a little, sadly.

Confirmed, hotels will be provided for new hires

That’s great news.

I don’t see how it would be contractually compliant for the company to provide hotels to new hires. Not that the company cares about our CBA, but it is a bit disappointing when pilots start getting excited about the concept…and just to be clear, I think it would be great for new hires to get company provided hotels, however the company does not just get to unilaterally disregard our CBA to fix the staffing issue that they created, sorry. Of course the company could raise 1st year pay, that actually is contractually compliant, but they would have to do that for all first year pilots, which, of course, they have zero interest in doing.

Genuine question. Where in our CBA does it cover new hire hotels or lack there of? Obviously there is LOA 4 about first year pay, but I don’t remember a single thing about new hire accommodations. How is providing hotels to new hires disregarding the CBA and not contractually compliant?