Flow to Spirit -Correction to previous thread
07-13-2017 | 06:11 AM
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Like flysooner said, they could pull flying. Look what happened to Compass. They partnered with AA, and poof! Their flow was gone. Did Delta end flying with Compass? No, but I think they made some displeasure known. Though Delta specializes in business travel and more discriminating travel tastes, I would still think helping feed Spirit with pilots is not something they'd be thrilled about. As for United...I don't know .
Compass was sold to Trans States Holdings in 7/2010. It was decided to end the flow program then, and the last flow-eligible pilots were late summer/early fall 2010 hires. I had interviewed shortly thereafter at Compass and they were up front with us that we were not flow eligible.
The AA flying was announced in either June or July 2014 and commenced operating in March 2015.
These two events were completely separate.
07-13-2017 | 06:54 AM
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Like flysooner said, they could pull flying. Look what happened to Compass. They partnered with AA, and poof! Their flow was gone. Did Delta end flying with Compass? No, but I think they made some displeasure known. Though Delta specializes in business travel and more discriminating travel tastes, I would still think helping feed Spirit with pilots is not something they'd be thrilled about. As for United...I don't know .
07-13-2017 | 09:44 AM
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Like flysooner said, they could pull flying. Look what happened to Compass. They partnered with AA, and poof! Their flow was gone. Did Delta end flying with Compass? No, but I think they made some displeasure known. Though Delta specializes in business travel and more discriminating travel tastes, I would still think helping feed Spirit with pilots is not something they'd be thrilled about. As for United...I don't know .
07-14-2017 | 04:13 AM
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I'm sure United and Delta will be thrilled if Spirit gets almost nothing to ensure Delta and United fights have staffing. This is great for them.
07-14-2017 | 07:12 AM
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Why would they care? It would be different if they had a spirit and United operation and were flowing people who didn't directly support Spirit. But that would make Spirit upset, not United.
I'm sure United and Delta will be thrilled if Spirit gets almost nothing to ensure Delta and United fights have staffing. This is great for them.
I'm sure United and Delta will be thrilled if Spirit gets almost nothing to ensure Delta and United fights have staffing. This is great for them.
07-19-2017 | 06:33 AM
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