Spirit Travel Benefits ?
 

Will the travel benefits for off-duty Pilots and their families be improving anytime soon ? Agreements with other carriers ?

Thank you

We can't get people to want to raise training pay, I'm sure this is far down on the list. But to answer your question No, our nonreving options stink and are not improving.

Who all exactly do you have ZED agreements with?

I’m sure we have something with air Sudan or Asiana.

Domestically it’s jetblue and Southwest. If you want to actually get on I suggest buying tickets for your family and jumpseating yourself if you need to save a little money.

there are 4 pages worth of airlines we have agreements with from all over the world.

air canada
air france
azul
copa
emirates
etihad
lufthansa
Qantas
Virgin Atlantic

just to name a few

Pretty much everyone except the legacies.

Thanks, I appreciate the information.

This is the best option for sure!

We have a pretty decent international line up (though we recently lost BA, sadly). Domestic agreements are where we sorely lag, pretty much AS, WN, and B6 and a handful of smaller airlines. Honestly, I have no clue about the politics or even which powers that be secure these agreements but Im hoping as we grow, we may be able to establish/reestablish some of these agreements.

Hopeful but not optomistic.

How was BA lost? Or rather, how do you know?

We forgot to send them tea and crumpets.

Not sure how we lost BA, I imagine the agreement was heavily lopsided with Spirit employees using BA passes much more than vice-versa. All I know is that ID75s on BA were an option when I went to Europe last Summer and by the end of the year when I went back, this was no longer an option.

Spirit has one of the poorest travel benefits.
No legacies, no major Asian airlines.
Try going to Japan though Canada or Australia.
Are Frontier benefits this bad?
It's not just the other airlines "fault", it's mostly our nonexistent travel bureau. Plus it must not be a high priority for our pilot group, since there was no mention of travel benefits during 30 months of negotiations.

Pretty much. Although we just got BA added to our list. Go figure.

Do you guys have info on how soon after hire the benefits kick in for family?

Even when we had BA it wasn't the greatest. If I remember correctly you had to book it through the travel department and were limited to two tickets per year or something like that. I called the travel department to ask them about BA one time and they told me to just email them my questions and then hung up. Never got a response from my email either.......

We have a travel department?

I’ve been here since Sept of 17 and can’t get them to put my wife on Spirit non-rev travel. I’ve emailed numerous times to numerous departments, called HR twice and spoke to someone each time. I’ve sent our marriage certificate two times but just can’t seem to get it done. It seems to be hit and miss because others in my class have their significant others on travel benefits.

Pffft.. buy her a ticket. Last time mine traveled standby on us, she got stuck in DTW for 3 days. AA has great last minute deals, since she'd have to be flexible anyways, many times as low as $58-68 bucks. Just a thought.

Oh and we don't have "departments", we have "people".

She’s AA so we have AA flight benefits. It’s the principle of the thing. I was told about flight privileges with spirit when I was hired. They hold my feet to the fire and that goes two ways. We may never use it but it is a benefit that was promised to me.

I completely agree. It’s also not covered in the contract so they really don’t owe any of us anything in regards to pass travel. Sad, but true. No one in Miramar seems to know how to do anything simple. I’d say call your cheif pilot and status rep since you’re getting nowhere on your own. Cheif pilot should be able to get it handled.

Contact your rep, not a bunch of dudes on APC then.

I was responding to the op with my experience. Had no expectations of “dudes on APC” solving my problem. If that were the case I would have posted this a month ago.

I completely agree Squawk. My intent wasn't to let them get away anything.

Good luck.

Received a phone call today from someone at Spirit and they’ve got everything squared away. Just giving credit where credit is due.

It’s part of the APC census; they’ve pinpointed your identity now.