BTW one person just got 12 hours plus of left training as a new hire. The FAA is watching. It sure does look like they've run all over the POI and have gotten away with murder for a long time now.

 

And our POI is a good dude, he doesn't break balls just to do it like most Fed's.

 

I’m sure it is a concern. We have very new captains paired with FO’s that have only spent a few years at a regional with a few thousand hours. Add this to our growth rate and our smallest footprint in the industry training. It’s a recipe for disaster in the making. All our data points to trends going the wrong way and it concerns our safety department and gate keepers.
Corporate greed and profits have blinded our management.

 

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”

 

This says so much about you... wow...

 

OMG. Chemtrail neutralizing hand sanitizer. For. The. Win!

 

Sadly in this world it would probably sell. On the shelf next to the air purifiers

 

What does it say? Life is more pleasant if you embrace mankind’s stupidity instead of fighting it.

 

Can I use that line?

 

Considering that these same FOs spent a few years and a few thousand hours doing 5-6-leg days in all sorts of fun places like the Nasty Northeast, I'm reasonably confident they'll get me from FLL to IAH in one piece.

I'm currently on a trip with a 6-month F/O who has more international experience than I do, has more type ratings than I do, and even speaks more languages than I do (mind you, I speak four).