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01-13-2011, 07:09 AM

citationdrvrmob

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Spirit Questions

Haven't read a lot of recent information about Spirit (maybe a good thing?) I'm interested in applying, but curious as to how things are now that everyone has been recalled. Life for people living in base seems to be great, but how would it be for someone who had to commute 1 or 2 legs? Also, what's the latest with the ipo?

Thanks!

01-13-2011, 07:52 AM

dudeskibro

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Reserve sucks no matter where you are. I've commuted to reserve in 2 different bases, both 1 leg, 2 hour commutes. Compared to my friends at regionals and legacies, I'd say we have it pretty good. 3 hr call out, and I've never been short called. 99% of my trips have always shown up on the computer the day prior...and day of calls, I've had 6+ hours notice. Afternoon reserve is commutable in and out. Our afternoon reserve is 10am to 12am...but on the last day we're auto-released 6 hrs prior (6pm). I really can't complain.

As far as the IPO...we've heard nothing...nothing at all.

01-13-2011, 10:26 AM

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In general, what's the QOL at Spirit? I, too, am interested in applying. What kind of time are they looking for? I have 3300TTL, 1995 SIC B737 and 0TPIC.

Thanks in advance.

01-13-2011, 10:46 AM

captscott26

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Originally Posted by rgoeasy

In general, what's the QOL at Spirit? I, too, am interested in applying. What kind of time are they looking for? I have 3300TTL, 1995 SIC B737 and 0TPIC.

Thanks in advance.

QOL here is better than most places, especially if you live in base. At the moment we are seeing applicants with well over the minimum (4k) TT and several thousand hours jet PIC. I suspect that those numbers will come down quite a bit over the course of this year though, so dont lose hope. I suggest submitting your app and updating frequently(every other month perhaps) to show your level of interest.

Good Luck!

01-16-2011, 11:49 AM

willflyforcash

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what are the hours for early reserve call? also, is there airport standby at any/all bases?

01-16-2011, 02:04 PM

319wisperer

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Effectively its a 2 hr 15 min callout at all bases. On paper its a 3 hour callout but this is to departure time and Spirit requires a 45 min report prior to dept time. Nope, no airport, hot, couch, standby reserve at any base.

01-16-2011, 02:39 PM

170Homie

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To current Spirit guys. How are your overnights? I see you do A LOT of caribbean and S America destinations. Are they over 20 hours? Accommodations?

01-16-2011, 02:52 PM

319wisperer

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hey Willfly, i misread what you were asking. We have 4 reserve sections: 2am-4pm, 10am-midnight, 1pm-3am, and 9pm-8:30am. 170- though we do go to many caribbean and latin places,south of florida we only overnight in San Juan and Lima (due to flight length), I think Santo Domingo is ocassionally a scheduled overnight, though not currently. Lima is great the first couple times, although it recently went from 24 to 12 hours as its down to once a week. San Juan has tonnes of overnights of variing lenths and times. By and large our accomadations are pretty nice a la Crown Plazas, Hyatt Summerfields, etc. But like anywhere, a few places suck. Also the overflow hotels we occasionally get are usually dumps.

01-16-2011, 07:27 PM

skybolt

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In general, what's the QOL at Spirit? I, too, am interested in applying. What kind of time are they looking for? I have 3300TTL, 1995 SIC B737 and 0TPIC.

Thanks in advance.

Better than most regionals on par with most majors. Just remember, some majors suck and some let let you work three mornings/nights a week. The only real QOL problem I see at NK is the complete lack of consistency in your schedule. You will fly early one day, red -eye the next and end up back early all in a four day trip. If you're senior (like anywhere else) you can get eighteen off and do turns from FLL to BOG or from DTW to RSW. If you're junior, you'll become a vampire and fly red eye turns from FLL to Santiago DR.

Some may claim to know what they're looking for, but I don't think anyone really knows. Being good friends with influential people always works, right?

01-17-2011, 05:02 AM

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captscott26

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NOT TRUE!

The callout is 3 hours. The contract says you must have the ac ready to depart in three hours. It does not define "ready to depart", nor does it ever make any mention of report time. If you have a good captain, the aircraft will be ready, you walk on, close the door, and off you go.