Spirit Interview

[saviboy]

Hi
I finally reached the minimums for Spirit. including 1000 121 turbine PIC .
Some of you guys know me from this website or other ones (hi shrek

) and know I have been working hard at meeting the minimums.
I gave my resume to my friend who is going to give it to "the right person".

Anyways, long story short:
is spirit still interviewing ?
How many classes left before hiring stops (a guy told me last class in july)

thanks

 

[gatorbird]

Hiring Outlook

saviboy,

I don't have a crystal ball, but I'll give you what I do know/what I've dug up:

-Spirit is still interviewing; I have two friends interviewing next week in DTW.

-As for the "last class in July" speak...from what they told us, the training dept. gets the authorization from the Suits of Miramar to hire X amounts of pilots within X amount of months...that gets modified (and luckily continued) as the months go by. In simple terms, they were probably given the okay to hire through July back in March/April; they'll revise it as July nears.

-The airline is increasing aircraft utilization from around 7-9 hours/day use up to around 13 hours/day...primarily through 30 min. turns and red-eyes from the West/Carib. More hours = more manpower needed to babysit an Airbus.

-This one is hard to get an answer on, but here's something interesting I dug up:

"The airline is taking delivery of six Airbus aircraft in 2007 and three in 2008. Aircraft arriving in the next two years are part of a previous Airbus order. Earlier this week, Spirit tapped Airbus for 30 more A319s for delivery in 2009 through 2013." -AviationWeek, January 24, 2007

No one seems to have an answer for the "how many more before 2009 orders come" question, but I hope this information is accurate. I believe we've gotten 2 so far this year.

I hope this information helps keep some wind in your sails...keep in mind, it only takes a few economics farts to send the whole thing to the s%*tter.

BTW, here's a link to the full article:

http://www.aviationweek.com/aw/generic/story.jsp?id=news/SPIR01247.xml

gator

 

[saviboy]

thanks gator

 

[Shrek]

We ARE still interviewing bubba.......

Hopefully you sent it to that guy that we talked about......

 

[saviboy]

Yes to him, and to a friend of mine who is a Captain.

Knock on wood!:smash:

 

[Roger Murdoch]

saviboy, just curious about where you saw the requirement for 1000 trubine PIC. According to their website they don't even have a min. PIC time. Maybe they recently changed it or maybe your talking about competetive mins. Just curious. Good luck to you. I'm interested myself because I have applied with only 700 turbine PIC.

 

[saviboy]

saviboy, just curious about where you saw the requirement for 1000 trubine PIC. According to their website they don't even have a min. PIC time. Maybe they recently changed it or maybe your talking about competetive mins. Just curious. Good luck to you. I'm interested myself because I have applied with only 700 turbine PIC.

Actually, as far I know, they don't require 1000 turbien PIC. I' m sorry if my sentence was a little confusing.
Spirit does require 1000 turbine (not necessarily PIC) even though it was not listed on the website last time I checked. I saw that on Airlineapps.com
I have been advised to get 1000 PIC, though. I guess it can't hurt.
Good luck

 

[Shrek]

Hiring approved through DEC and more upgrade classes to come as well.

Let the speculation to why begin .......

 

[saviboy]

Hiring approved through DEC and more upgrade classes to come as well.

Let the speculation to why begin .......

Whats DEC?

 

[Cardinal]

December?

 

[pilotyip]

lots of turnover driving this? a sign of the 2007 hiring boom?

 

[gatorbird]

lots of turnover driving this? a sign of the 2007 hiring boom?

The December authorization is news to me (why should I be told as an average line goober?), but...

Given the current age 60 rule, we will average 10 retirements/year for the next few.

We have a number of guys holding on to TWA/AA, USAir, and United seniority nos.; most will have to make a decision within the next year or two. My opinion? The TWA and United guys will scram, the USAir guys will depend on upgrades and personal preferences (domicile location, etc.).

This one's hard to put a finger on, but it's rumored that a few guys will bolt to Virgin. My guess is the carrot looks too tasty and they probably want to live out West. May peace be with them.

Then there's the oddball attrition: pilot A gets on at Fedex, pilot B does something absolutely stupid and gets themselves fired, pilot C decides to go spend some time with the Dali Lama.

As our history shows, this IS a hiring boom by Spirit standards.

gator

 

[lionflyer]

Is there any chance they will call people without RECs? I live 2hrs away and, believe it or not, would kill for a DTW domicile. Unfortunately, I know no one there. If any of you Spirit guys want a lot of beer, let me know.

 

[Shrek]

The December authorization is news to me (why should I be told as an average line goober?), but...

Given the current age 60 rule, we will average 10 retirements/year for the next few.

We have a number of guys holding on to TWA/AA, USAir, and United seniority nos.; most will have to make a decision within the next year or two. My opinion? The TWA and United guys will scram, the USAir guys will depend on upgrades and personal preferences (domicile location, etc.).

This one's hard to put a finger on, but it's rumored that a few guys will bolt to Virgin. My guess is the carrot looks too tasty and they probably want to live out West. May peace be with them.

Then there's the oddball attrition: pilot A gets on at Fedex, pilot B does something absolutely stupid and gets themselves fired, pilot C decides to go spend some time with the Dali Lama.

As our history shows, this IS a hiring boom by Spirit standards.

gator

Bingo.........

 

[bendover]

does anyone know if spirit is CASS also what it would cost to jumpseat to cancun on them ie; taxes?

 

[Shrek]

We are CASS - don't know the taxes.

Since you are so against ALPA and we are an ALPA carrier why would you want to JS on us?

 

[PCL_128]

Since you are so against ALPA and we are an ALPA carrier why would you want to JS on us?

Better yet, why is he even jumpseating at all if he's so anti-ALPA? If it wasn't for ALPA going to bat for us after 9/11, then the JS would have been permanently taken from us.