Info on SPIRIT please.

[BrickTop]

i'm not disagreeing with you...but what defines a major carrier?

revenue

 

[cbrown1]

I've applied 3 times, I have 5k hours and ATP and 121 tpic and not call.
I've been told you need an internal to get the call. I'm starting to think that it is the only way.

 

[Mike man]

revenue

So why, then does Spirit not belong in the Majors section?

 

[2000Easyguy]

Something must be wrong with this site.

I clicked on the "Majors" tab and now I'm reading about Spirit...i guess those 330's got them moved over here.

So, the thread "Needing a boat name" in the Majors, belongs as well?
btw, I think that thread is harmless here as well. Just reading material, enjoy.

 

[DonVerita]

For the record...a "Major Airline" is defined by the D.O.T. as having at least $1 Billion in annual revenue.

Spirit is not a Major airline. Spirit is a National airline: as defined as having between $100 Million - $1 Billion in annual revenue.

Hope this clears that up.

 

[Mike man]

For the record...a "Major Airline" is defined by the D.O.T. as having at least $1 Billion in annual revenue.

Spirit is not a Major airline. Spirit is a National airline: as defined as having between $100 Million - $1 Billion in annual revenue.

Hope this clears that up.

Thanks...I do like the underline (how is mine?), super neat!

Q1 2011 $232.7 M
Q2 2011 $275.9 M
Q3 2011 $288.7 M
Q4 2011 $TBD

So, technically you are correct...just a few more weeks until we can officially move the Majors section, of course this is all pending $202.7 M in revenue for Q4 2011. But seriously, do the "this thread should be in a different area" police really have such tiny balls they have to patrol fi to find violations?

 

[CavePilot]

Yeah I was just joking about the Majors/LCC posting issue.

Spirit stuff can go wherever. I think it's usually posted in the LCC section, but whatever.

I've heard some regional airlines cross the Majors $ barrier, but I think posts should be organized logically, not based on little peepee syndrome.

 

[ROSWELL41]

LAS crew base announced. Opening February 1, 2012.

 

[Mike man]

LAS crew base announced. Opening February 1, 2012.

I was just thinking what an odd date for a base to open...I'm pretty sure that February 1 is not the beginning of the February bid month. Usually, because February is short, they toss January 31 and March 1 into February. But February has 29 days in '012 so maybe only March 1 will get thrown into February this year.

 

[Metrojet]

I was just thinking what an odd date for a base to open...I'm pretty sure that February 1 is not the beginning of the February bid month. Usually, because February is short, they toss January 31 and March 1 into February. But February has 29 days in '012 so maybe only March 1 will get thrown into February this year.

Bases can open and cose whenever management wants.
Monthly bids are a whole other animal.

Metrojet

 

[cbrown1]

LAS crew base announced. Opening February 1, 2012.

Now I really wanna go to spirit.

 

[Mike man]

Bases can open and cose whenever management wants.
Monthly bids are a whole other animal.

Metrojet

really, is that how it works? I wasn't clear on managements ability to to whatever the f it wants and our ability to "fly it and grieve it" with our thumbs up our, well you get the idea. Also being a former rjet employee, I am quite clear on the ability of management to open bases without proper support facilities for crews, parking, computers, bag storage, etc and to close them on a whim, only to have them open again in a few months only to have them close again.

so if the bid month begins on January 31...and the base opens February 1, I guess that would be good for all involved (or based at the new base) because they will get a deadhead on the 31st and a hotel room to be in position for the new base flights on the 1st.

but like i said before (and the only thing i said before--nothing more)...what an odd date for a base to open, probably not even on the first day of the bid month.

 

[DonVerita]

Thanks...I do like the underline (how is mine?), super neat!

Q1 2011 $232.7 M
Q2 2011 $275.9 M
Q3 2011 $288.7 M
Q4 2011 $TBD

So, technically you are correct...just a few more weeks until we can officially move the Majors section, of course this is all pending $202.7 M in revenue for Q4 2011. But seriously, do the "this thread should be in a different area" police really have such tiny balls they have to patrol fi to find violations?

Uhhhh, yeah...ok. Whatever you say.

You asked for a definition of what constituted a "Major" and you got one. I'm surprised you didn't already know it.

 

[Mike man]

Uhhhh, yeah...ok. Whatever you say.

You asked for a definition of what constituted a "Major" and you got one. I'm surprised you didn't already know it.

I knew what the answer was...it was actually a rhetorical question (you know about those, right?) and since i added in all the extra clues as to what i was eluding too (that was the fancy looking numbers) I am just dumbfounded as to how you didn't get it.

 

[DonVerita]

I knew what the answer was...it was actually a rhetorical question (you know about those, right?) and since i added in all the extra clues as to what i was eluding too (that was the fancy looking numbers) I am just dumbfounded as to how you didn't get it.

Nice attempt at backpeddling. Try not to fall off the bike next time.