Who’s going to EWR
 

Who plans to bid EWR

If they don't play the "Newark state of mind" parody at the ribbon cutting ceremony, I'm quitting.

probably near 100% of acy and bringing our high relative seniority with us.

This is why I love Spirit.

all 40 of you still 160 pilots to go

There are 156 pilots who live within 200 miles of EWR. Looks like a select few will be displaced to EWR against their will.

The acy ca/fo split is 50 ca 43 fo plus or minus a couple. Roughly 107 displacements without factoring voluntary ewr bidders outside of acy.

how’d you pull that stat? Also, would kill for EWR (FLL here)

Spa.alpa.org - Pilot dashboard - Pilot Commute then add up all the bases.

I’m like 15% company wide but was 50% in ACY. I know a few super senior guys who live in NY/CT who will bid EWR who commuted to ORD/Dtw. Can’t wait to be even more junior 😂

Well we all will be as the company shrinks from the bottom

We've also got quite a few pilots who are from the NE and didn't want to commute so they moved to a base, especially in FL. I've flown with several who were planning on eventually going back to that area had the Jetblue merger been approved.

I don't think anyone is moving their family until this company starts operating with a profit again.

So this bid on the 31st is EWR only? Not the furlough?

It's kinda both. After the bid they will know which specific pilots will be furloughed. This can then change if the union can get us furlough mitigation. The bid results can be cancelled at any time up to the effective date (sept 1).

It's both. Furlough can actually be bid voluntarily.

Why not?

Over half of our bases including EWR are hubs and domiciles for legacies. Why not move? If you want to leave you could move or if you have a class date already you could use the displacement to pay for your move. Even if you want to stay you could move because you like a certain area better than your current domicile also that it’s a hedge in case spirit goes tits up and you now live a domicile for your preferred legacy.

My comment refered to moving to EWR. Sure people might move to a hub city, but north Jersey? Gross.

What's wrong with Northeastern PA/western NJ or Central Jersey along the shore? Nothing. Beautiful areas. Ya dont have to live in the central ward to work in EWR.

Also another valid point. However the comment made was about someone moving to EWR as a result of this bid. I don't think it will happen. I'm not knocking anyone who lives here, anyone who wants to move to a hub city, just simply stating my opinion.

Yea, Jersey is probably the most underrated state. It's a great place. There's only a couple other places in the US I'd want to live.

Some of the highest taxes in the nation, overpriced real estate, over-crowded, poor infrastructure, filthy beaches, terrible accents from the few that speak English. EWR is a concrete, industrial, wasteland hell. It looks like $h!+, smells like $h!+, and is basically just $h!+. But other than that...it's great!

doesn’t high prices and crowded mean people wanna live there? Minot North Dakota has neither . Nor ‘filthy beaches’ they even have non crazy accents. EWR is not Jersey. Same as Miami is not Florida. Thank god. Take your ivory tower and move west.. the bison state welcomes you.

I've flown with a few FOs in FLL who are younger and either single or partnered without kids, and "home" for them is somewhere up in the NE.

Florida is nothing more than a placeholder for a lot of them before they get older and decide to start a family.

The first sentence of your post sounds like a perfect description of South Florida, just replace taxes with homeowners insurance.

Look around next time you are at 5 or 6k before they put you on the base for 22L. Northern NJ is absolutely beautiful outside of EWR

may the heavens have such envy of the state of New Jersey that glimmers in the rays shinning down from the oh mighty sun!

And the Angels chanted— LONG LIVE ‘JERSEY!

That's why Newark is called the mile high city. You have to be a mile high to find it attractive.

guess that united interview didn't work out for you as you still post on here? Laf

guess someone is being displaced to EWR?