Haha. God help us all. I turned it off with 20 minutes to go.

Could be worse, my last airline we phoned in questions. Had a senior FA ask if they would open a SNA hub so she wouldn’t have to drive to our base in LAX. Sometimes we spent 5 minutes of the call having the COO explain to the senior FA’s how to print out their pairings :D

Did she say she didn’t know that she could print out pairings, or how to run a computer?

No Furloughs
 

I particularly liked the FAs who wanted to know where the “job well done” cards were filed...we assumed the filing cabinet was cylindrical in shape. On the pairings...it was always the fonts being too small for the MSP Mamas to read

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I'll miss hearing Dottie's life story every call.

I miss playing phone call Bingo.

It’s not just us but if you are a large corporations that employs mostly people that work at $10/hr what kind or questions would you expect. Imagine Walmart has a company wide call.

Stupid runs deep even beyond the $10/hr employees.

I would love to know the job title of who suggested we "raise our ticket prices" in order to have "classier" passengers on the planes, which will reduce the number of gate returns for unruly passengers. Ted had a nice answer to that, a polite way of saying "cheap airfare is who we are, who we will always be, and what pays the bills."

Last I checked two Delta passengers got on a flight on the jet bridge and American had a fight between passengers on the airplane. Not just limited to NK....weird times!

Exactly my point.

I remember asking questions during those phone conferences thinking management actually had the answers but really only Hulas had the answers. Really glad to be out and free from TSH!

My favorite (TSH) company call was the one where a guy fell asleep and snored through the entire thing. They couldn’t figure out to mute him, eventually just carried out the meeting with the snoring in the background

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Snoring was a mysterious background noise. And the snoring was on an unmuted phone. That’s a double winner.

Fee will; it's a b#$ch....

Attention Ex Trans States and Compass pilots

Yes, Spirit is better than your regional, even the conference calls.

“Remember when is the lowest form of conversation”
-Tony Soprano

Yup, seriously.... “this one time at Compass”.

Now if you’re from Skywest.. this doesn’t apply.

TSA numbers are up!

With the Compass and Hulas references earlier, I don't know if this is an independent hopeful assertion, or a cheeky reference to a bye-gone carrier.

Either way, well played.

Unfortunately NK numbers arent. AA and Delta picking up.

Last week Spirit posted revised Q3 guidance saying that their yields are better than anticipated and their cash burn will be at the lower end of the 3-4mil a day estimate that was estimated previously


“Based on management’s current expectations and assumptions developed from current trends and information available at this time, Spirit estimates its third quarter 2020 operating revenue will be slightly better than the Company’s initial guidance due to management’s expectations of higher operating yields.

Management also estimates that total operating expenses for the third quarter 2020, excluding special items, will improve as compared to the Company’s previous guidance. This expected improvement is based upon an expectation of lower labor expense as a result of more team members participating in voluntary time off programs, lower than expected maintenance expense driven by an expectation of fewer maintenance events, and other cost management initiatives.

As of the date hereof, the Company currently expects its average daily cash burn1 for the third quarter 2020 will come in at the lower end of the Company’s guidance range given in late July of $3 to $4 million.”

So this seems good to me. They are participating in an industry conference call today and hopefully will add more color

words are just words, with proof or evidence

not up enough at the Plattsburgh airport.

https://www.wcax.com/2020/09/08/spir...n-plattsburgh/

Gateway to Canada, not surprising considering the restrictions.

When the border is open, and stays open, it will
be back. I honestly have zero clue wtf it took us this long. Maybe we were forced to as a route because of CAREs money, but I did a MYR-PBG-MYR back in July. 13 going and 10
coming back. Again, zero surprise with the border closed.

CARES requirement. That ends in a few weeks

While this problem is not unique to Spirit, it is certainly annoying. My brother bought tickets on us for early October only to have them completely cancel that route with no other option. Had another family member book on us for vacation and they have already changed the flight times twice, with them having to stay an extra day to catch the flight back home. Granted this is just on Spirit, but I'm sure it is similar across the board on other airlines. October is about to bring a whole new level of pain and confusion unfortunately.

So the airlines are supposed to keep flying magnificently unprofitable routes at the convenience of the flying public, all the while the CARES funding dries up? C’mon man, that ain’t how capitalism works. I guess next we should consider re-regulating?

Did you just use “CARES” and “Capitalism” in the same thought? Haha. Too funny

well to be fair he did says when it “dries up” aka stops. So yes when the socialism stop on Sept. 30th we revert back to capitalism and have to be efficient again.

Thats the problem with socialism isn't it. You always seem to run out of other peoples money.

yes, very true.

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Interesting when people say government money, or government bail-out. The Government has no money, except what they take from people - the "other" people.

So that's what you got out of my post? I just stated that the frustration is about to get real in October. I never said anything about the airlines flying unprofitable routes solely to please the general public. C'mon man, don't be ridiculous.

Thatcher quote for the win!

Well if I’m being honest, yes. That’s precisely what I got out of your post.

Bingo. . . .

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'Take money' as decided by the freely and fairly elected representatives of our republic, as defined in the articles within the Constitution, of course.