Originally Posted by avi8orco (Post 3468543)

no…white shirts.

You spirit guys will never know how good you have it until you need to wear your beat up, old blue shirts because the company that supplies your uniforms, who also is Taco Bell’s supplier (let that sink in and yes, some of our guys were mailed Taco Bell uniforms), has them back ordered for a year and is the only place you can get them.

I’d do anything to be able to walk into any local FBO pilot shop or some flight school and be able to walk out with a uniform shirt.

Originally Posted by afterburn81 (Post 3468584)

Lot of guru pilots on here that had a second career in airline merger etc.

A serious question.

We know now that JB can rest assured they have a dance partner and NK management has no obligation to ensure the viability of the Spirit Airlines brand. Is it safe to say: until what was Spirit Airlines is absorbed by JetBlue Airways and a JCBA has been settled, all new aircraft that were to be put into the Spirit system will now be painted in JB colors and put into the JB network? No new routes or means to improving the customer service experience of Spirit Airlines should be expected since there’s no reason to build the brand.

How does that effect us as pilots of NK for the next couple of years? Realistically it’s been nice to experience real organic growth and new aircraft each month.

NK hires because of attrition. But it also has been hiring substantially to keep up with growth as well. Upgrades will most likely stop until since Spirit Airlines will be, from our perspective, winding down until a JCBA is reached.

Knowing that these regulatory processes take quite some time, I’d imagine JB will be whittling a way at the NK, until there’s very little
left. So as to show the DOJ that there’s nothing to save by opposing the merge. Another not so fun thing for us.

To those in the know, (seems to be quite a few of you) please tell me something that will make the next couple of years less painful for us.

Originally Posted by JulesWinfield (Post 3468592)

Until the merger is complete, everything will remain separate. Any aircraft coming to Spirit will continue to come to Spirit. Spirit still needs to operate a viable company. Remember, there are still no guarantees this thing goes through until it does, and Spirit is a publicly traded company.

Originally Posted by Dewey299 (Post 3468436)

Will Spirit be hiring pilots still or will JetBlue start having a say on the hiring?

Originally Posted by afterburn81 (Post 3468603)

So there’s an agreement between boards. The approval by the DOJ though, does that pertain to the buyout of NK or the merge of the 2 airlines?

Originally Posted by Bluedriver (Post 3468610)

Until DOJ approval, the airlines can't merge anything, and in fact JB won't even be able to make the purchase, let alone have ownership of Spirit. That's 12-24 months away. Until then they are 99.9% separate companies, other than any MUTUAL agreement between the two managements of how to manage the separate companies. As such, both companies will continue to grow and compete as if they are separate, because they are. It is also possible that the DOJ never approves the transaction, which is why both companies will continue to grow and compete individually.

It is also in JB's long term interest for Spirit to grow and ideally manage a good airline.

Originally Posted by 8JRMfortheyear (Post 3468613)

let’s hope the doj turns this down.