Spirit of NKS
07-08-2009, 11:43 AM
#701
Works harder not smarter
Joined APC: Sep 2008
Position: A320 CA
Posts: 142
Payroll states they have NOTHING to do with the payroll deductions - even with their phone ext. listed. "It's an HR issue. Contact HR." Who is running this company!?
Youve based your life on INTEGRITY, of which this company has NONE.
ANY ONE OF YOU WHO TRUSTS YOUR EMPLOYER (SPIRIT) WANTS YOU HERE, AFTER *EVERYTHING* THEY DO TO YOU AND YOUR FELLOW EMPLOYEES, OPEN YOUR EYES.
Our union is overwhelmed, you and your family's safety net is no longer. You have been doing your job. Your company has been working against you. DO NOT FORGET BUT REACT. There is no future here. You are being used. Use until you can leave. You are better than this! Expect the same from those who control your family's life - a company that values it's employees. Without us they are NOTHING.
Youve based your life on INTEGRITY, of which this company has NONE.
ANY ONE OF YOU WHO TRUSTS YOUR EMPLOYER (SPIRIT) WANTS YOU HERE, AFTER *EVERYTHING* THEY DO TO YOU AND YOUR FELLOW EMPLOYEES, OPEN YOUR EYES.
Our union is overwhelmed, you and your family's safety net is no longer. You have been doing your job. Your company has been working against you. DO NOT FORGET BUT REACT. There is no future here. You are being used. Use until you can leave. You are better than this! Expect the same from those who control your family's life - a company that values it's employees. Without us they are NOTHING.
07-08-2009, 12:12 PM
#702
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Nov 2008
Posts: 314
This is total BS, was just told by HR that those of us furloughed in Sep and reaclled for may are ALL going back to First year pay till september! which, according to them, is are 'new' longevity date. makes no sense.......I can feel the smoke coming out of my ears
07-08-2009, 01:32 PM
#703
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Sep 2005
Position: A320 Captain
Posts: 1,114
"New" longevity date? Thats a first, I can't wait until the lawyers get ahold of this one. To bad it will take a year for it to get resolved and then we will probably never see that back pay. It's time for something to happen, I don't mean we have to go on strike but the company needs to be held responsible for its actions. The only way they are going to start listening is when they are forced to. Really, what are our options? A judge in our favor, Obama taking over the airlines, or ALPA saying enough is enough.
P.S. Anyone want to pay for me to go to law school so I can be the on call lawyer for Spirit Pilots.
P.S. Anyone want to pay for me to go to law school so I can be the on call lawyer for Spirit Pilots.
07-08-2009, 02:13 PM
#704
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: A320 CA
Posts: 184
Originally Posted by 2Co2Fur1EXwife
This is total BS, was just told by HR that those of us furloughed in Sep and reaclled for may are ALL going back to First year pay till september! which, according to them, is are 'new' longevity date. makes no sense.......I can feel the smoke coming out of my ears
If they do that/this they are going to have an S load of pi$$ed off pilots on their hands. Pilots that will cost the company more money then what it would have cost them to keep the returning pilots on property with at least their original hire date. I just don't understand these guys... Doesn't management know that the pilot group is one of the largest stakeholders in an airline??? Can they really be that stupid??? Don't they realize that no matter what they do to labor, labor will ALWAYS come back to bite them in the ass ten fold one way or another? Small changes in the way the a/c are operated while still operating within company policy can cost them much more than they realize. Why would any one of us want to save a drop of fuel (the largest expense for an airline) if they treat us like that. I sure hope HR was mistaken... It could get really ugly. 
07-08-2009, 02:41 PM
#705
Line Holder
Joined APC: Feb 2009
Position: 28 C
Posts: 85
Skar
Originally Posted by dudeskibro
You heard it here first:
Armenia, Colombia (AXM) starts November 13th for Friday and Tuesday service. Flight 361 will operate at 10:35 am. Return flight is 362 at 3:00pm.
Two flights a week is a drop in the bucket, but international growth is better than a kick in the face. I hope it's profitable...we're definitely the only ones doing this.
They should announce this later today.
Armenia, Colombia (AXM) starts November 13th for Friday and Tuesday service. Flight 361 will operate at 10:35 am. Return flight is 362 at 3:00pm.
Two flights a week is a drop in the bucket, but international growth is better than a kick in the face. I hope it's profitable...we're definitely the only ones doing this.
They should announce this later today.
I have to say that it is an awesome approach and beautiful sight!!!
http://www.flycol.org/flyin/charts/SKAR.pdf 2007 chart.
07-09-2009, 03:55 AM
#706
Gets Weekends Off
Joined APC: Jul 2008
Position: 320*****
Posts: 487
Originally Posted by Angel
I have to say that it is an awesome approach and beautiful sight!!!
07-09-2009, 12:22 PM
#707
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Joined APC: Nov 2008
Posts: 314
What's going on? slow rumor day or something? Negotiations update, anyone get called for a voluntary this fall, any new news on the pay error......
07-09-2009, 02:37 PM
#708
First Rule of Fight Club
Joined APC: Jan 2007
Position: My seat smells like cat pee
Posts: 1,536
Originally Posted by 2Co2Fur1EXwife
What's going on? slow rumor day or something? Negotiations update, anyone get called for a voluntary this fall, any new news on the pay error......
Man you are a Junkie!! You're hooked on the stuff!!!
*Best crackhead voice*
"Rumors mannn, I need the rumorssss..."
07-09-2009, 04:34 PM
#709
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Joined APC: Nov 2008
Posts: 314
Originally Posted by BoredwLife
Man you are a Junkie!! You're hooked on the stuff!!!
*Best crackhead voice*
"Rumors mannn, I need the rumorssss..."
*Best crackhead voice*
"Rumors mannn, I need the rumorssss..."
07-10-2009, 08:40 AM
#710
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Joined APC: Apr 2008
Position: A320 CA
Posts: 184
Spirit posts profits in the first half of 2009
Brendan Sobie, Washington DC (09Jul09, 14:21 GMT, 266 words)
Spirit Airlines claims to have turned a better than expected profit in the first half of the year, but warns the outlook for the second half is murky.
The low-cost carrier's CEO, Ben Baldanza, says revenues for the first half of 2009 came in below budget but costs were below budget by an even wider margin. As a result, he says privately-owned Spirit had a higher than planned operating margin.
But Baldanza adds he is not sure if the carrier will be able to stay profitable in the second half. He says the outlook for the second half is "grey" and points out for Spirit there are more off peak months in the second half of the year than the first half.
He says May was relatively weak for the entire US airline industry and this often indicates a weak fall. "Demand is a little weaker than thought in part because fuel prices are starting to creep up," Baldanza says.
But fuel prices in the first half were significantly lower than last year, which helped Spirit achieve a higher than budgeted reduction in costs.
Baldanza says Spirit has been profitable since 2007, or one year after Baldanza took over as CEO and embarked on a major restructuring which focused on reducing costs and dramatically expanding the carrier's Caribbean and Latin American network. Based on DOT data, Florida-based Spirit last year turned a $7 million operating profit on revenues of $661 million.
Baldanza says Spirit's balance sheet is also in relatively good shape. "We'll finish this year with more cash than we started the year," he predicts.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
Brendan Sobie, Washington DC (09Jul09, 14:21 GMT, 266 words)
Spirit Airlines claims to have turned a better than expected profit in the first half of the year, but warns the outlook for the second half is murky.
The low-cost carrier's CEO, Ben Baldanza, says revenues for the first half of 2009 came in below budget but costs were below budget by an even wider margin. As a result, he says privately-owned Spirit had a higher than planned operating margin.
But Baldanza adds he is not sure if the carrier will be able to stay profitable in the second half. He says the outlook for the second half is "grey" and points out for Spirit there are more off peak months in the second half of the year than the first half.
He says May was relatively weak for the entire US airline industry and this often indicates a weak fall. "Demand is a little weaker than thought in part because fuel prices are starting to creep up," Baldanza says.
But fuel prices in the first half were significantly lower than last year, which helped Spirit achieve a higher than budgeted reduction in costs.
Baldanza says Spirit has been profitable since 2007, or one year after Baldanza took over as CEO and embarked on a major restructuring which focused on reducing costs and dramatically expanding the carrier's Caribbean and Latin American network. Based on DOT data, Florida-based Spirit last year turned a $7 million operating profit on revenues of $661 million.
Baldanza says Spirit's balance sheet is also in relatively good shape. "We'll finish this year with more cash than we started the year," he predicts.
Source: Air Transport Intelligence news
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