Spirit Canx 9-8 New Hire class

[pilotyip]

One of our pilots with a 9-8 class date at Spirit, just gave notice that his class had postponed anywhere from two weeks to indefinitely. What gives at Spirit?

 

[vclean]

None of them had a college degree.

 

[enigma]

One of our pilots with a 9-8 class date at Spirit, just gave notice that his class had postponed anywhere from two weeks to indefinitely. What gives at Spirit?

We also cancelled the corresponding upgrade class. The official word is that these were due to the early retirement of two maddogs.

My take is that Spirit has gone through a good deal of upper flight ops management change in the very recent past. New DO, the VPof ops control, the long time COO is gone, etc. I suspect that those changes have caused some to sit back and re-evaluate.

Stuff like this just goes to show you that one can never take anything in this business for granted.

My sympathies to those affected by this. I believe that this setback will be only temporary, so keep your hopes up.

Good Luck,
enigma

 

[AA717driver]

I'd also heard that they were backed up in training. FWIW.TC

 

[iaflyer]

Hey PilotYIP - the word I'm hearing is that the JUS pilot with the Spirit class date (that was cancelled) can't take back his resignation. So, he'll be out of a job come next week.
iaflyer

 

[8vATE]

Have any of you Spirit guys heard if your Airbus training will be at Airbus in MIA??

 

[enigma]

Have any of you Spirit guys heard if your Airbus training will be at Airbus in MIA??

The initial classes of NK busdrivers will go to Airbus MIA.

Also, the initial FO's are also getting typed while there. Apparently, Airbus doesn't charge any more for training to a type than they do for FO training.

That could turn out to be a great deal for some of the FO's who choose to bid the bus. They got seat locked, but the getting the type early will certainly make their upgrade go much easier when it comes.

enigma

 

[iaflyer]

Hey PilotYIP - the word I'm hearing is that the JUS pilot with the Spirit class date (that was cancelled) can't take back his resignation. So, he'll be out of a job come next week.
iaflyer

Just to follow up on my own question - USA Jet decided to take this guy back. Glad to see they did the right thing.

iaflyer

 

[T-Gates]

Speaking of the Airbus.....

This is the first picture of the Bus in new Spirit colors that I have seen... I like the new changes... There's gonna be alot of silver planes at DTW now.

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[jetdawg]

Just to follow up on my own question - USA Jet decided to take this guy back. Glad to see they did the right thing.

iaflyer

not that I want to see anybody walking the streets without a paycheck because of a class post ponment but I am a little confused.
A company that at one time was not worth staying at should open there arms and say tough luck hell yeah your seat is still warm have at it. I am glad they did for your friend but unless the owner is your buddy or best friend they did a hell of a nice thing not sure if it was the """right thing"""

 

[FN FAL]

One of our pilots with a 9-8 class date at Spirit, just gave notice that his class had postponed anywhere from two weeks to indefinitely. What gives at Spirit?

I was talking to a Spirit Captain that was non-reving out of an airport I fly to on a freight run. He told me that it used to be you needed to have two DUI's to get a job there. Maybe they are just giving these guys time to catch up.

 

[LearLove]

Just to follow up on my own question - USA Jet decided to take this guy back. Glad to see they did the right thing.

iaflyer

Just got to put my 2 cents in here:

Kuddos to the USA Jet people for taking the guy back. Class act. Hats off to Yip and his boys.

 

[FN FAL]

Just got to put my 2 cents in here:

Kuddos to the USA Jet people for taking the guy back. Class act. Hats off to Yip and his boys.

Our company has a written policy of one year. Some have been welcomed back with longer than that. No guarantee of getting your old freight run back though.

 

[pilotyip]

A business decision

He was a current qualiifed DC-9 Captain, he had not left the company and he retracted his resignation. One less Captain to replace. Not replacing a Captain saves the company money and is in the best interest of the company. We have done this before, so it is really nothing new. If a pilot leaves the company draws his last pay check, and then wants to come back, we have rehired at the bottom of senority with the next new hire class we run.
We try to do what is right and not get into the who is right.