Maybe we should start a "make Detroit great again" campaign to spur interest and take some of the heat off of Florida. We could even buy one of those abandoned neighborhoods you hear about and turn it into a target range with zombies.

It’s not good for me at all actually, and I have never stated that is was, nor have I cheered the company for the displacement.

No pilot has actually been displaced yet, just because the bid results are (almost) published doesn’t have any affect on this IROP. I am not saying the rebasing will be better or worse strategically for operations, maybe it will maybe it won’t. We don’t have any data or post reduction IROP to determine that yet. You obviously have your opinion on that, based on your feelings.

Yes it negatively impacts a big part of the pilot group, yes that is a bad thing. Fortunately for those it impacts, it comes at a time of unprecedented hiring and options.

Most likely we, the pilots, will be blamed again like they’ve construed on every past IROP. Weather and crew, that’s what we will hear.

Schedulers working from home and can’t make a decision on their own without patching in a supervisor, record attrition(which according to them isn’t an issue) poor IT.. the list goes on and on. Nobody got their pee pee slapped for last august. Someone should’ve been fired over that whole mess. But hey, it’s status quo here at NK. The more things change, the more they stay the same.

This summer is going to be meltdown galore.

Yes it will. Grids will be all red. No drops. But In aviation and airline life, it’s like the weather, just wait a little while and it will change. Nothing in this industry stays the same forever. You can either sit tight with your seatbelt fastened or jump ship to to places that are hiring for pure attrition and not growth. This industry is a gamble and I’m glad I am at the twilight of my career.

I hope that every flight attendant, pilot, whoever that got kicked out of their hotel rooms because Spirit has lost control of the operation find a comfortable chair in the terminals right in front of the TSA lines and get a good night’s sleep. Maybe the traveling public will wake them up in the morning. Also, where’s the pack your patience email from ALPA?

Well then you have this kind of stuff- yesterday I get to the plane and an ACARS message states that we were missing an FA. So I go to the galley and I can here hold music for CS on the phones of two other FAs (Bing bing bong.... Bong bing bong). They informed us they had been on hold for over 40 minutes each. We asked why they were on hold and they said to ask CS what they were going to do about the missing FA. We told them about the message. They waited on hold until they got to an hour then they hung up.
If this is the mentality of flight attendants I wonder if that's not the reason for unnecessary hold times. They were on hold with CS for no other reason but to be on hold with CS. When do we get our own line?
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LOL!
These pilots are instead sitting on the airport benches, sharing their life story about their day with their base chat group. Like the rest of the group chat cares. That's pretty much all us ORD guys have read the last few days is the whine fest from a few who have had miserable experiences on the road the last few days.
Maybe they need to carry a paper book with them called a diary and write in there. The "play by play" of their ****ty day is just what every other pilot wants to read while they sit at home, pass up the XY master calls, and enjoy a cup of coffee lol.

Only two FAs on hold? My favorite is their "divide and conquer" method when all 4 of them call, usually seated in the 4 BFS aisle seats, and one says "The first one that gets through can see about our hotel. The treat it like a radio contest where the 100th caller gets free concert tickets. I dont think they understand what the word "queue" actually means.

Hey Spirit friends. F9er guy here. What’s going on today ? Flight aware said 35% of spirit flights cancelled today ? We’re having some major issues also with holding for CS etc.