Spirit

[i fly boxes]

Is Spirit Still closing the DTW pilot base?

 

[Shrek]

It has shrunk but not closed as of yet............who knows. New hires are not being placed there either as of today.

 

[Bighorn]

They announced on July 31st, or earlier depending on if you are buddies with someone in management, that they were going to close DTW on Oct 1 st. They came up with a plan to close it slowly displacing 30 crews, hence the name the "dirty thirty". They then displaced 10 more about a month later. Then the actually brought back 8 FO's to DTW for December. We have lost alot of people because of this base closure and coupled with the fact that the majors are hiring. We have lost a few to ********************bus. We have lost a lot to Virgin America. I heard that February 1st they are going to close DTW for good. I actually commute and don't trip trade and work deals to get DTW trips. I will tell you that in my honest opinion that there is no way in hell people will be able to get to work if they due in fact close DTW. Every flight to FLL I am on there are people commuting as part of their line, there are FA's, IT people, Training Dept personel, and gate agents going to training.

Are they going to close DTW?
No one knows. I don't think management knows what to do. They want sat bases to get around the contract but, they can't. They ARE going to do something really bad after the holidays to try and ram perf bid and sat bases down are throats. JC will get his own way. He hates the four days off in row thing in our contract.

You will not be based in DTW as a new hire and there is not a good chance you will ever be able to hold DTW if you weren't hired here in the first three classes of 07.