Life is what you make it. One can choose to be worried/sour about his career, or enjoy it.

I choose to enjoy it and appreciate the life this place provides for me, especially since a lot of guys have had it worse in the past. Genuinely love working here.

When I’m older, you won’t hear me speaking ill of anyone who got here with less regional time/struggles than me, either;)

wow, I guess some people are just oblivious to their surroundings. At my old Regional new FOs would actually complain to CAs about the bonuses, meanwhile those CAs had no bonuses at all when they were hired and worse their lack of pay subsidized those FO bonuses.

You missed the point…

The guy posting in the last few pages is genuinely concerned that the sky is falling because we had a tough week operationally. This is not the first one, and won’t be the last.

It’s not a gripe about new guys not paying dues. Covid is the first “industry event” that many pilots have been through, and career wise it was relatively benign. In fact it’s probably more net positive for them as it boosted retirements and more guys will see majors in their 20’s than in their 40’s.

I hope for your sakes you sail right through to the position you wanted and enjoy long fruitful careers, I really do.

But those who have surfed a few industry cycles have a icier veins for things like the idea of a few hundred cancellations threatening their job.

Contract was great. Home basing in fll.
What I didn't know was that management here was inept. Though I hear allot of people saying they have thick veins etc how many old dogs said that and then got canned from their job. It's not about being some salty tough airline guy it's being proactive. If this meltdown showed me anything this management team will flat out leave its employees out to dry. See under the gate agent issues etc / staffing to some pilots hiding in a bunker. Would love to see some of the people on this thread say with a straight face that that's normal.
And no that's not stuff you can expect or read about before you apply to a job as this meltdown is basically unprecedented in its scope in the modern Era. Still no communication either about what they are really doing if anything to fix it

That’s normal

<——— straight face

You’re welcome. Want to hug it out?

You kidding? They said they changed the phone tree, and added an extra scheduler from 8am-8pm! That should do the trick, right? :D

Management comes and goes. You think any Spirit Management, or any airline management, joins and airline and says “this is my career airline”. Airline management resumes are like baseball manager resumes, tons of hopping from team to team.

Not going to base a career on the current occupants in the C Suite. I’m on my 3rd CEO at Spirit

Ah right exactly.

Jeez why don't we just have an automated sick call
Electronic releases
A operations center in the middle of the country
Paid gate agents who are given actual tools / info to do their job
And not getting trapped in a broom closet because the mobs in San Juan want your head

I guess all too much to ask for

Was this in the brochure when you applied here?

Why didn’t you ask about all this in the interview? All were current issues when you hired on.

Instead you said “good contract” and you don’t have to commute.