I heard it's $1750/month pre tax?

It's $1000/month taxed. and $750 per diem non-taxed. They do provide a hotel though. Snag a credit card with 0% interest. Rack it up for the 2 months, and (hopefully) pay it off when you get on line

Sound financial planning.

I would donate plasma and collect cans before racking up credit card debt and hoping to pay it off at $38.50 an hour at 72 hours a month.

Ha ha, you win the internets today!

It's a joke don't do it! You'll be better off somewhere else. Tell them to call you when the pay comes up!

Just remember the first year pay seems like it lasts forever. INCLUDING per diem I made $28.5 year 1. That said I didn't exactly for my butt off.

Best first year financial plan at Spirit is to drop everything possible and get a second job especially if you already have enough SIC in your logbook for a reasonable application somewhere else.

Even in the summer, a first year FO who watches red/green daily can usually drop at least half their schedule each month. That frees up a good 20-25 days/month for a job that pays better, like maybe wal-mart greeter, McDonalds, or pizza delivery. Sign up for Uber so you can get paid to/from the airport too. Pretty sure McDonalds doesn't track 29/7 when you ask for overtime.

The month before your first PC go ahead and actually fly so you'll remember your flows in the sim, but that's the only trick to it really.

I totally get the wanting to drop because why fly at $38 an hour?

However I can't tell you how many FOs do just that and are at the 1 year mark, with 200 hours of Airbus time in their logbook, and still having trouble managing the airplane.

The pay sucks, we all know that when coming here. But you are doing yourself and the other guy you're flying with a disservice if you are still flying like a newhire at the 1 year mark. The Airbus is not a hard plane to fly but it does take some time to understand it.

Because its one thing if a newhire has trouble not getting behind the Airbus, its another when its a guy who has been here for a while.

Coming out of a condensed firehose training program, avoiding the real airplane won't do much to improve your ability to do your job well. In the end, regardless of pay, the 2 pilots up front depend on each other, don't be the weak link.

Wrong about dropping ( depending on base ) January through April maybe but the summer and fall have been all red. Hell in October you couldn't drop anything. Maybe you are thinking of Spirit of the past but RED is all we have now. Do you need a screenshot?

To answer the question: Not enough to justify applying. It was hard enough back when Spirit was one of the few Airlines hiring, Upgrade was less than 3 years, other Airlines hadn’t gotten new contracts yet, and I had a sugar mamma. I think you are crazy to consider Spirit if you are looking for a flying job. There is honestly nothing good to say about this place.