Full Back Pay At Spirit?

[limpyoke]

Is ALPA going for full back pay?

 

[troll565]

Is ALPA going for full back pay?

back pay for what?

 

[flyboycmsu]

If we're around Jan 1

 

[Mike man]

The decision does not have to be made until the middle of February (on either issue)...it could be sooner, however I would not expect it.

My understanding is that it will be JA pay for folks that worked on days with less than the 4 off...I don't think we can win the door/wheel roll case.

 

[600rvr]

What's happening with the 4 day arbitration? I vaguely understood that some sort of decision was due in December... February you say?

 

[kwick]

The rumour is Jet Blue going out of business Jan 1. and Spirit getting 20 aircraft from Spanair to take over their routes.

Again, just a rumour, from a FT. Lauderdale Jet Blue pilot.

Straight from their FLL chief pilot, from what's been posted.

 

[flyboycmsu]

He must be the same guy that I am getting my intel from! Ironic.

 

[limpyoke]

1. Full back pay when signing a new contract.
2. JA pay for the 5 day off case.
3. Full back pay for the wheel roll case.

 

[boomlrd]

How about full back pay for people actually furloughed due to the fact they could schedule the remaining pilots with less days off. I would love to pay down some credit cards due to no job for 3 months and living off Ramen noodles.

 

[viper01]

The rumour is Jet Blue going out of business Jan 1. and Spirit getting 20 aircraft from Spanair to take over their routes.

Again, just a rumour, from a FT. Lauderdale Jet Blue pilot.

Straight from their FLL chief pilot, from what's been posted.

I've heard it's the other way around.
P.S. I don't wish this on either company.

 

[flyboycmsu]

I've heard it's the other way around.
P.S. I don't wish this on either company.

So we made the largest operating profit (excluding SW) in the 2nd qtr of '08 (according to DOT) out of any LCC, yet we are going to shut our doors Jan. 1. I just cant see the revenue tanking that bad to offset fuel savings.
What do we know anyway...we're all worker bees

 

[troll565]

The rumour is Jet Blue going out of business Jan 1. and Spirit getting 20 aircraft from Spanair to take over their routes.

Again, just a rumour, from a FT. Lauderdale Jet Blue pilot.

Straight from their FLL chief pilot, from what's been posted.

actually it's only 10 from ClickAir!

 

[BrokenWing]

The rumour is Jet Blue going out of business Jan 1. and Spirit getting 20 aircraft from Spanair to take over their routes.

Again, just a rumour, from a FT. Lauderdale Jet Blue pilot.

Straight from their FLL chief pilot, from what's been posted.

Now that $hit is funny.

 

[troll565]

FLL-SKRG-FLL 3/1 and ACY-BOS-ACY 5/1

 

[crxpilot]

So we made the largest operating profit (excluding SW) in the 2nd qtr of '08 (according to DOT) out of any LCC, yet we are going to shut our doors Jan. 1. I just cant see the revenue tanking that bad to offset fuel savings.
What do we know anyway...we're all worker bees

Largest operating profit? I dont think so......


http://industry.bnet.com/travel/1000211/does-spirit-really-have-the-best-operating-margin-in-the-us/
Does Spirit Really Have the Best Operating Margin in the US?

By Brett Snyder
September 18th, 2008 @ 8:05 am
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Second quarter DOT numbers are out, and I was extremely surprised to see that the airline with the best operating margin in the US during the quarter was . . . Spirit? The airline’s 13.5% margin is stellar, and while sources like ATW are taking it at face value, it just doesn’t sound right. Let’s dig in.
In Q2, Spirit’s operating revenues were $206 million, just slightly above the $204.5 million in Q1. So nothing surprising there, but now take a look at operating expenses. In Q2, expenses were $178 million, WAY down from the $206.5 million in Q1. Further down in Schedule B-12, we can see that the decrease came from flight operations - $107 million in Q2 vs $134 million in Q1. So where did that come from?
This required heading over to Schedule P-6, where we can see that the big decrease was in fuel costs. How weird. They paid about $59 million for fuel in Q2 and more than $86 million in Q1, according to the financial filings, but that doesn’t jive with the numbers in the Airline Fuel Cost and Consumption chart. Over there, it says they paid more than $106 million in Q2 vs around $83 million in Q1. So what gives?
Clearly, they reduced their fuel costs somehow via one time reductions that were rolled into the fuel line item, but it doesn’t reflect how the operation itself was performing. If we double up fuel costs, we can see that the airline lost money, just like many of its peers.