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Originally Posted by Macjet
Probably because our attrition was not 25%. In fact, we grew the pilot ranks by 20% from the beginning of 2017 through today from 1500 to 1800 (round numbers).
400 hired? We didn't have 25% attrition there either. 100 left but not entirely from these 400 bodies. We had people leave that were hired in previous years so they aren't in that 400.
With 1800 on property and 100 leaving that is a YTD attrition of 5.3%. Not a good APC Thread Title but facts nonetheless. 25% attrition would be closer to 475 having left which would have shut the airline down.
Attrition: Total pilots who left/ total pilots. 5.5%. We got it. What I’m trying to explain to you is that you are ignorant for arguing with the OP. His title of “25% attrition”, is not really true in general terms of how it is usually calculated, but he showed his math with factual numbers. Is it not possible that a perspective new hire could be scrolling through the forums and see that and say to himself “wow 25% attrition. Things must be bad at Spirit. I don’t want to work there”. So therefore why would you argue with that? I personally don’t feel the need to correct him. Plus you could argue that you can calculate all kinds of different attrition. Example: “under age 40 attrition” could be calculated by taking the pilots under 40 who left divided by the total pilots under 40. I would call the OP’s calculations (total who left / total hired) “net new hire attrition” etc.
I swear, Spirit Airlines could asses each passenger with a “chemtrail neutralizer tax” of $1 per ticket and use that to pay the pilots industry leading pay, yet we would have people like you yelling and screaming about how chemtrails aren’t real lol. Not me. I’d be like “heck yeah they’re real”