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You asked and obviously did not get the answer you wanted and started to complain about your perceived injustice of the airport not offering your employee parking when you are not an employee there and your airline has zero pilots employed there.

This is part of commuting. It’s a huge inconvenience, cost, time suck, and lost earning potential.

The current state of our airline and the slowing of the industry at large is starting to manifest as frustration in many pilots, but especially pilots that only saw good times from the day they took their first lesson to the day they got their first airline job making six figures. That timeline being periods of months sometimes instead of the decades it was in the past. There are many things we cannot control once you make it to the show. Starting your own business is really the only way for you to control your own destiney.

 

It is an injustice! The crew who operate the aircraft at that airport don’t have a place to park. And they don’t have a place to park because the city knows that pilots have so much invested into their careers, that they will pay to park elsewhere. And everyone’s argument is that I don’t work at the airport…neither do you, yet you have parking! Or that employee parking is inconvenient, and you choose not to use it, so therefore, obviously I shouldn’t have parking at all 😂😂😂

 

Incorrect. You do not report for duty in AUS and pilots that park in their domicile are reporting for duty and therefore work there. Pilots that commute from one Spirit domicile to another are provided a parking accommodation through the negotiated CBA. You do not meet either of those.

You were being provided employee parking at a cost as a courtesy by whoever governs parking at AUS. They have decided to not extend that courtesy any longer to a passenger that happens to be a pilot based elsewhere, and Spirit is not required to accommodate you as it was not negotiated under section 5 of the CBA.

It’s not an injustice, it’s an inconvenience, and you have to live with it unless Spirit opens a domicile in AUS, you choose to drive to a domicile, or the parking authority in AUS changes their policy.

 

SMH…the mental gymnastics you have to pull to make the case that you or someone who lives at a DIFFERENT domicile are an airport employee, and I am not, is astonishing. I understand what the CBA says. I never claimed that Spirit owes me a parking spot in AUS…it’s a completely different conversation.

 

Someone that lives in a different domicile is NOT an airport employee of that airport. However, those pilots are required to be accommodated per the CBA.

 

This wouldn’t be a Miata that you’re trying to park?