Understood. Hoping for clarity on its future and for y’all to get a raise before I’m at mins.

It’s pretty simple, as the company has spoke about this as recently as a few days ago on the investor call.

The company is not at full utilization, and won’t be for a while. They need as many resources (crews) in markets that make the most money (Florida) to help increase productivity/utilization etc and help lower CASM numbers as well.

As long as we can’t staff the airline fully, they will pull resources to the areas that make the most money. Currently that is not DFW, DTW and ORD.

The argument against 1-2 day trips is ridiculous. As a relatively senior local I cannot hold these trash pairings. When they do pop up in open time you have to be ready to log in and pick it up. For a while we had far more 4-day trips which make your schedule much less flexible.

2x

People keep spewing that argument and it makes me wonder if they even work here.

3x

The ability to be home more with 1-3 day trips makes this place more tolerable. Short trip lengths go senior. Junior pilots aren’t getting stuck with 1-2 day trips. No way

Just looked, and there are 53 1 and 2 day trips in open time for November in my base/category. Those will go to reserves.

What base? I think FLL has the most

I didn’t know you were an FO, thought you have been here for 7-8 years. I can’t speak to the FO open time, but if it’s in FO open time it’s gonna have a lot to do with the massive amounts of drops FOs are doing to hold out for that X list pay. And the fact we are still understaffed on the FO side.


FOs I fly with say how most are dropping their sweet 1-3 day trips for the chance at an X list. If we were staffed, I doubt they would be dropping these days.

In the end, I’ve not heard 1 FO complain about the increased mix of 1-3 day trips.

You must not be a captain then

The difference in QOL between a Line holding CA and a 1st year RSV F/O is night and day. I think this thread got off topic, we shouldn’t be talking about how awesome QOL is for line holding captains in base (it’s really good!) If some one coming to spirit now could expect that in 3 years, then yes it would be relevant, but I don’t think any new hire can expect that. It’s going to be a long time to upgrade and hold a line as Capt. for new hires, much longer than most airlines.