Spirit orders 20 new 321's

[sealy101]

Its a secret.

 

[huncowboy]

Really? Several weeks and no spirit pilots can provide any details on how you make SO MUCH more money than your FO pay rate suggests?

It is only possible if you drop everything when the phone rings and you must live in or close to a base.

I averaged 125 hours per month last year with two lengthy vacations for a total of 6 weeks off. Others did better. Lots of guys did 150h on average.

There is two ways to do it. In both cases you work your ass off.

You can do 150h on average by bidding reserve and working on your days off. For us anything on our days off is above min guarantee. The phone rings on your day off and you take 1.5h move up pay per day for the trip and they can't use you on your reserve days because you are high on block. Sometimes you get 200% junior pay as well. I am hearing it is getting harder to do this as an FO because everyone is picking up trips for straight pay. Definitely not the case for CAs.

The other way is to bid a hard line and bid the transition conflict. This is what I did the past few years. This gets easier with seniority. I got about 20-30h soft time each bid period. Plus I would also put myself "available" on my day off and get called for trips for 200%, or move up pay, or you simply ask them to drop that 4 day down the road with pay. This is still lots of work, I flew some 860h or so and probably did 12 off on average if I don't count the vacation.

But what is cool is that I don't have to do this. I could also just take my days off and be off 18-20 days with 80h a month. Like next month. I am on reserve and still scored 16 days off in a row with a single week of vacation and a transition conflict. So off we go to drive the pacific coast highway for ten days or longer if we feel like. I bet you can't do that as a bottom junior CA with pref bid.

 

[Flyer1015]

I was gonna say it sounds like at Spirit (like any other airline) the only way to make more money is fly more. The only exception is the golden goose egg of hard lines that make transition conflicts possible. Most airlines have switched to PBS that can see pre-assigned activities and that saves on transition conflict. Spirit hasn't, and that's one way pilots make bank.

huncowboy, don't you use Flica pref bid? With hard lines that are published and you submit your order of preference?

 

[huncowboy]

Exactly. Flying your regular line and ignoring everything else will give you your usual pay and 15 off. Like all the other places. And many people do just that. Even senior people ignore transition. They don't care to educate themselves about the ins and outs of it. Their loss is my gain.

Yes we do preference lines in flica. When I wrote pref bid, I was thinking of the computer software that most companies use that build you a line.

 

[Dart]

Animal may be sold...

Spirit Airlines Announces Sale of Common Stock by Indigo
MIRAMAR, Fla., July 29, 2013 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Spirit Airlines, Inc. (Nasdaq:SAVE) announced today the public offering of 12,070,920 shares of common stock by certain existing stockholders affiliated with Indigo Partners LLC ("Indigo"). Upon completion of the offering, investment funds affiliated with Indigo will no longer own shares of common stock of Spirit Airlines. The company will not receive any proceeds from this offering. Barclays is acting as the sole underwriter for the offering.
The shares of common stock are being offered pursuant to the Company's existing shelf registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on July 31, 2012. A final prospectus supplement describing the terms of the offering will be filed with the SEC and, when available, may be obtained from the SEC's website at www.sec.gov or from Barclays Capital Inc., c/o Broadridge Financial Solutions, 1155 Long Island Avenue, Edgewood, NY, 11717, Telephone (888) 603-5847 or by e-mailing [email protected].
In connection with the offering, the Company also announced that Messrs. William A. Franke and John R. Wilson have informed the Company that upon completion of the offering, they expect to resign as directors at the next board meeting, presently scheduled for August 7, 2013. Upon Mr. Franke's resignation, the Company's board intends to elect Mr. H. McIntyre Gardner, a director since 2010, as Chairman of the Board.
This press release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction

 

[SAABaroowski]

I'm crediting 133 hrs this month with 31 hrs of block, lol. I was on RSV and got called for two JAs and a few "move ups" on my reserve days. I just wish I was on second year pay.

This whole Indigo/F9 thing worries me a little bit though, lol. ll gladly email ya a screenshot of my Flica to see how it played out

 

[Flyer1015]

I know JA on a day off pays 200%, but what's a move up and how much does that pay?

 

[SAABaroowski]

Lets say your call out starts at 12pm, they have a trip at 11:30 am, you say yes you get 1.5 hrs add pay per day.