so is it normal for a chief pilot to lie to potential candidates about the current state of the contract? that looks like a lot more then 3 sections left open - scheduling pay retirement

Lmao... 😂😂😂😂😂 It's going to be years before a TA!

AFTER the buyout/merger with XYZ

Pretty much everything we have agreed on (which took 2 years) was already agreed on prior to section 6 bargaining. For the chief pilot to come out and tell potential new hires that we have "made all this great progress and just a few items remain" is technically the truth but does not paint the whole picture.

The truth is that the only items that remain are the big ones. The company has been very successful in their stall tactics thus far. They will stall as long as they can or as long as it makes sense to them. I think the company would be fools to continue down the road of stall tactics. In the end we all suffer, including the shareholders and our customers. Hopefully they wake up to that fact. That being said, our management is more of the Frank Lorenzo / used car salesmen type. And even if we do get a contract by August (I doubt it), Spirit will still be a crappy company to work for. Good people to work WITH, but a crappy company to work FOR.

Defense
 

It will be hard for anyone to defend a fully staffed model with redundant events in the news all pointing to poor staffing policies.


Horizon Air cutting hundreds of flights this summer due to pilot shortage | The Seattle Times



Campbell wrote that the pilot shortage, coupled with the airline’s unprecedented growth as it has added aircraft, “created a perfect storm.”

DEN job fair
 

sooo..has anyone who attended the job fair in denver last week heard anything yet?

Only 32 of the candidates that attended the June job fairs were qualified. That only fills one month of classes. If you're one of those, you're chances are good.

how'd you get those stats? I'm assuming you were working it?..im just a few hundred hours below "preferred minimums" and I thought it went well. hope to hear something soon

Yes, I'm in the know. I'm kind of a big deal. I have many leather bound books.... I kid.

I'm starting to wonder of the 28 of us at the interview last Tuesday.. how many were actually hired.