Spirit las base questions
 

Wondering about seniority at las. Junior, senior, in between? What kind of lines or flying is there? I’m a regional guy thinking of putting in an app for some better cash for loans.

Thanks

Lots of red eyes, which is good if you like flying at night. As far as seniority, seems like LAS is becoming more senior. Been a while, as far as I know, since a new hire has been awarded Vegas right out of training. Maybe 3-6 months to hold Vegas? I have flown with FO's from other domiciles waiting to get to LAS. Also, a lot of senior FO's that could hold captain back east are bypassing upgrade, waiting for Vegas. With the number of recent upgrades, they may be waiting a while.

While "better cash for loans" is a perfectly valid reason for wanting to change jobs, you might want to refine that a bit if you are lucky enough to secure an interview and they ask "why Spirit?" Good luck!

PS, Las Vegas is a great domicile staffed with a lot of excellent pilots.

3 words! CRAPPY RED EYES!!! I feel for those guys out in Vegas! Love the city hate the Reds!! :mad:

Most trips start with a red eye towards the east out of LAS. Another special treat is flying to LAX first then flying the red eye east. Then if you’re lucky you might get to do some red eye turns to Central America out of FLL or MCO one or two nights in a row after trying to get a few hours of day sleep. Even better is doing a reverse red eye with a 5 or 6 am departure heading west or south the next day. There are a few cushy day time or afternoon late evening trips. The base has gotten senior. Had a FLL captain on the jump seat out of LAS waiting to bid back into his home base of LAS.

I was based in Vegas for a month and was thinking about moving my family out there for a few years to explore the west on my days off. One month of the flying in that base sucked so bad there was no way I was moving out there. It’s the worst flying and to make it worse it comes with no override and it highly unproductive trips.

It’s too bad because there is so much in the western US I want to do with my kids and living in Vegas for a few years would make it so easy without taking weeks off work. Any trip I have that goes west of DFW I dread bc Spirit seems to only have one way to move airplanes back east and it’s in the middle of the night. Don’t they think people in the west would like to fly east in the daylight?

All of the above is true unless you are 20% or higher.

I’m an east coast guy and I don’t know the costs associated but another west coast base would be priceless IMO... LAX preferably... we have dozens of SoCal/NorCal/Pacific NW commuters that would love it...would probably be the same style trips with one leg east coast red eyes to start but it would alleviate some of the seniority issues in LAS..

Most west coast commuters would prefer LAS over LAX. I would imagine the only guys that would bid LAX would be the SoCal guys and maybe a few NorCal commuters. LAS is a really easy commute from any major city out west. Tons of flights, not a legacy hub (very little JS competition), minimal weather related issues, cheap hotels, etc. As far as commutes go, LAS is about as good as it gets.

Truth! Laquinta north is 41$.
Tons of flights. It’s a good gig if you can deal with the red eyes.