Summer meltdown
08-03-2021, 05:22 PM
#131
That/It/Thang
Joined APC: Aug 2020
Posts: 2,848
Originally Posted by dualinput
Solution is get people to check the bags, throw the bags, pull tickets, and answer questions or nothing is going to work. You can’t have a successful reboot without correcting the source of the problem. Flight crew and airplanes was never the issue
Enjoy the hotel downtime boys, hopefully it gets better before getting worse
08-03-2021, 07:11 PM
#132
Line Holder
Joined APC: Jul 2021
Posts: 35
Loving this thread you guys, you don't know how lucky you are not flying for Alaska, they've been doing this for 90 years and still are having the same problems as y’all but at least y’all have overtime and reassignment protection and reserve that's good enough for senior pilots to bid. I wish I flew for Spirit right now, is that sad? Sad if you're an Alaska pilot.
08-04-2021, 05:58 AM
#133
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Joined APC: Feb 2021
Posts: 378
325 cancellations already for today. Painful.
Talking to some folks, sounds like many airports are going to require Spirit to pay for dozens and dozens of extra police officers once flights start up again because of the high chance of violence at that time against employees. Not a good time.
Talking to some folks, sounds like many airports are going to require Spirit to pay for dozens and dozens of extra police officers once flights start up again because of the high chance of violence at that time against employees. Not a good time.
08-04-2021, 06:07 AM
#134
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Posts: 231
Originally Posted by FlyGuy2021
325 cancellations already for today. Painful.
Talking to some folks, sounds like many airports are going to require Spirit to pay for dozens and dozens of extra police officers once flights start up again because of the high chance of violence at that time against employees. Not a good time.
Talking to some folks, sounds like many airports are going to require Spirit to pay for dozens and dozens of extra police officers once flights start up again because of the high chance of violence at that time against employees. Not a good time.
From an F9 guy wishing the best to our NK brethren stay safe out there. Could easily be us next time.
08-04-2021, 06:12 AM
#135
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Or we could just pay for for better training for gate agents and more customer service agents and more phone lines? People get livid because their flight gets delayed or canceled, they can't get a refund, they can't be rebooked on another airline since we have no interline agreements, and most importantly there's virtually no word from the airline on what to do. People start acting like animals because there's almost no transparency when everything hits the fan. No excuse for that behavior either, and with a budget airline, I don't expect perfection, but we could do a better job for the pax besides just shrugging our shoulders...
08-04-2021, 06:26 AM
#137
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Joined APC: Feb 2021
Posts: 378
Originally Posted by pilotnicco
Or we could just pay for for better training for gate agents and more customer service agents and more phone lines? People get livid because their flight gets delayed or canceled, they can't get a refund, they can't be rebooked on another airline since we have no interline agreements, and most importantly there's virtually no word from the airline on what to do. People start acting like animals because there's almost no transparency when everything hits the fan. No excuse for that behavior either, and with a budget airline, I don't expect perfection, but we could do a better job for the pax besides just shrugging our shoulders...
08-04-2021, 08:01 AM
#139
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I was offered a job with Spirit. This makes me quite nervous. Either a shape of things to come, or will DEMAND and encourage a serious necessary restructuring of their current operational practices. I would imagine this event will significantly erode quarterly if not total-annual revenue and profit. Share prices dropping. Operational meltdowns happen. I have worked through them at other carriers. This is pretty historic.
08-04-2021, 08:10 AM
#140
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Position: 1900D CA
Posts: 3,397
Originally Posted by Skycap876
I was offered a job with Spirit. This makes me quite nervous. Either a shape of things to come, or will DEMAND and encourage a serious necessary restructuring of their current operational practices. I would imagine this event will significantly erode quarterly if not total-annual revenue and profit. Share prices dropping. Operational meltdowns happen. I have worked through them at other carriers. This is pretty historic.
Bad times pass. At Frontier we had a catastrophic meltdown one winter a few years back. We totally lost control of the airline. And then a few days later all was back to normal. Now it's just a distant memory. I'm sure this will be the same.
Jet Blue had a horrid meltdown once too. No one even remembers it now
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