stlgph From United States of America, joined Oct 2004, 8979 posts, RR: 27 Posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 18 hours ago) and read 4082 times:
I received this in my email box and since I see a number of inquiries on here about flight attendant positions at airlines, I thought I would post. It's an open house in Texas for tomorrow, January 5.
The link is here, but there's a typo in their headline saying it's January 4 on the website. Click the link to find out what is required if you plan on attending.
Miramar, Florida (January 4, 2013) - Spirit Airlines (NASDAQ: SAVE) is hosting open houses for new flight attendant jobs tomorrow, Saturday, January 5, 2013.
Location:
Dallas/Fort Worth Marriott Solana
5 Village Circle
Westlake, TX 76262
Dates/Times:
Sign-in begins approximately one hour prior to each session and doors will close promptly at the following scheduled times:
Saturday, January 5, 2013
9:00 am and 2:30 pm
Eternal darkness we all should dread. It's hard to party when you're dead.
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 724 posts, RR: 1 Reply 1, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 17 hours ago) and read 3968 times:
Do thwy currently havw a crew base at DFW? If not, I guess they might soon.
HiFlyerAS From United States of America, joined Jul 2011, 607 posts, RR: 1 Reply 5, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 14 hours ago) and read 3646 times:
Quoting PRAirbus (Reply 3): Wonder what their working conditions/benefits/pay are. If one judges by the average type of customer they transport, NO, thanks!
Have heard they're horrible but that's second-hand. It's all about sell, sell, sell. They even had advertising on their uniforms at one point if I recall. BTW Alaska is hiring as well...up to 300 FA's in 2013. Openings fill quickly...you have to check out their careers website often to hit it when openings for the next class are posted. alaskaair.com/careers
adamh8297 From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 150 posts, RR: 0 Reply 7, posted (4 months 2 weeks 6 days 10 hours ago) and read 3292 times:
Quoting PRAirbus (Reply 3):
Wonder what their working conditions/benefits/pay are. If one judges by the average type of customer they transport, NO, thanks!
What would the average type of customer of NK be? All I could think of is one looking to save a few dollars on a relatively short flight.
Cush From United States of America, joined Feb 2009, 197 posts, RR: 0 Reply 8, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 2892 times:
Quoting HiFlyerAS (Reply 5): Have heard they're horrible but that's second-hand. It's all about sell, sell, sell.
Keep in mind Spirit is a discount airline, so the pay is not going to be anywhere near the majors. Also, don't forget when a new FA usually starts out, they are with a regional carrier and pay is probably just as bad, if not worse on the regionals. I personally find that the Spirit flight attendants are among the best around. The flights i've been on have had a young crew that was eager and excited to be in the air, jetsetting around the country.
Spirit itself is a great airline. Yes, it's all about sell-sell-sell, but that is because that is where profit comes from. Like i tell folks: If you are looking for perfect schedules, assigned seats, checked bags, connections, then fly a mainline carrier! If you are looking to get from A-B with little personal belongings, don't care when you sit, or what time you fly, then Spirit is the perfect match for you!
azstar From United States of America, joined May 2005, 541 posts, RR: 0 Reply 9, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 18 hours ago) and read 2854 times:
Quoting Cush (Reply 8): If you are looking to get from A-B with little personal belongings, don't care when you sit, or what time you fly, then Spirit is the perfect match for you!
That might be true, but the down side is that most LCC carriers have very few flights between A & B. If one is delayed or cancelled, they will not rebook you on another airline. You might have to wait days for an available flight.
AWACSooner From United States of America, joined Jan 2008, 1420 posts, RR: 1 Reply 10, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2820 times:
Quoting adamh8297 (Reply 7): What would the average type of customer of NK be? All I could think of is one looking to save a few dollars on a relatively short flight.
I believe that they were referred to in Blazing Saddles as the "common clay of the west." You can youtube that...
Overall though, I suspect they are really trying to make huge inroads at DFW, and thus about to expand the base...but I can't help but think of the pullouts from DTW and ORD and the downshift of FLL...and wonder how long DFW will last before NK starts a drawdown.
santi319 From Puerto Rico, joined Dec 2005, 323 posts, RR: 0 Reply 11, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2793 times:
Quoting Cush (Reply 8): Keep in mind Spirit is a discount airline, so the pay is not going to be anywhere near the majors. Also, don't forget when a new FA usually starts out, they are with a regional carrier and pay is probably just as bad, if not worse on the regionals. I personally find that the Spirit flight attendants are among the best around. The flights i've been on have had a young crew that was eager and excited to be in the air, jetsetting around the country.
You will be VERY surprised at how good the NK FA have it.....
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 724 posts, RR: 1 Reply 12, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 17 hours ago) and read 2764 times:
It's funny that you bring it up, because you are right. They won't usually rebook you if a flight is delayed or cancelled, but they will rebook you on a different airline if your flight is overbooked. I guess because it's your choice, but I always thought that was a little strange. MY NK flight was overbooked once before to MYR and they said they'd rebook us on MQ to CLT and US to MYR. I didn't take it, but I wish I had so I'd have more flying time and the US flight was an E-175. The funny part is that the flight ended up being about 2 hours delayed at the gate and the MQ flight beat us to CLT and the US flight landed as we were taxiing to the gate.
azstar From United States of America, joined May 2005, 541 posts, RR: 0 Reply 13, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2718 times:
Quoting mesaflyguy (Reply 12): They won't usually rebook you if a flight is delayed or cancelled, but they will rebook you on a different airline if your flight is overbooked.
There are federal guidelines that apply when flights are overbooked, so, I guess, they are required to do that.
MaverickM11 From United States of America, joined Apr 2000, 15733 posts, RR: 48 Reply 14, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2703 times:
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 724 posts, RR: 1 Reply 15, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 16 hours ago) and read 2688 times:
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 724 posts, RR: 1 Reply 17, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 13 hours ago) and read 2505 times:
HiFlyerAS From United States of America, joined Jul 2011, 607 posts, RR: 1 Reply 18, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 12 hours ago) and read 2456 times:
Quoting mesaflyguy (Reply 17): That's pretty cool. I didn't know they had such a diverse group of crews!
I wouldn't exactly call their crews 'diverse' except for their nationality. It's a short-term job, just like many Asian carriers. Get too old or gain a few pounds and you're shown the door.
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 724 posts, RR: 1 Reply 19, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 10 hours ago) and read 2342 times:
Quoting HiFlyerAS (Reply 18): I wouldn't exactly call their crews 'diverse' except for their nationality.
I meant nationalities. It's pretty diverse if they have crews all over the world, or perhaps there's a better word to use? (Also, I am really asking if there is a better word, as there probably is. I am IN NO WAY I trying to sound like an a$$).
beechtobus From United States of America, joined Nov 2011, 179 posts, RR: 0 Reply 20, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2207 times:
AWACSooner writes: "Overall though, I suspect they are really trying to make huge inroads at DFW, and thus about to expand the base...but I can't help but think of the pullouts from DTW and ORD and the downshift of FLL...and wonder how long DFW will last before NK starts a drawdown."
AWACs- you're going to have to clue us in as to these supposed "pullouts"of ORD and DTW. By comparing the following 2 images, it is clear that over the last 3 years, ORD has only seen very large growth and DTW has grown some as well.
Spirit Route Map Circa early 2010
Spirit Route Map Circa early 2013
Regarding ORD: In the 2010 route map, I count 3 nonstop cites from Chicago and from the current map, I count 16. Over the last 3 years has added 13 cities and roughly 15 daily departures for a total of 19-21 departures a day depending on the day of week/season. Spirit has had this same amount of flights since mid 2011 out of O'hare, and the only reason more have not been added is the lack of gates. Spirit is maxed out in ORD with only 2 gates.
Regarding DTW: in 2010 NK had 10 nonstop cities at 13-14 daily departures. and now they have 13 nonstop markets for a total of 17 daily departures.
So in both cases of ORD and DTW your supposed "pull out" theory doesn't exactly hold. I would love to see what makes you think that ORD and DTW have been pulled down, if you have proof or ideas, please do tell. Sure, out of these cities some markets have been dropped or reduced but the slack was obviously made up elsewhere where markets or flights were added, a rearranging of the deck chairs, if you will.
I will give you that FLLs amount of flights have been reduced slightly over the past few years as international and Caribbean frequencies have been reduced but overall capacity is actually up in FLL with 178 pax A320s taking over many of the former 145 pax A319 routes and much of the frequency reduction southbound has been largely made up with the addition of domestic flights northbound.
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 724 posts, RR: 1 Reply 21, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 8 hours ago) and read 2176 times:
beechtobus From United States of America, joined Nov 2011, 179 posts, RR: 0 Reply 22, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 2157 times:
At that time MYR-ATL was an new announced route that hadn't yet started, but yes, it was also to be seasonal. The dashed red lines showed the current routes that were seasonal. Spirit color codes routes that start in the future based on start date. I don't think they do this on the route map on the web site any more but if you open the PDF timetable on their web site you'll see this.
surfandsnow From United States of America, joined Jan 2009, 2588 posts, RR: 31 Reply 23, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 2102 times:
NK hiring FAs in DFW is every bit as surprising as WN making DEN their newest crew base . It seems DFW already does - or soon will - enjoy nonstop service to every single domestic [mainland] market NK serves, with obvious exceptions of PBI (they serve nearby FLL), ACY (surprisingly, they will serve nearby PHL from DFW), the seasonal CRW station that didn't even work from FLL, and the pseudo-Canadian gateways to Florida/Caribbean PBG and IAG. If they keep growing in DFW, I'm guessing we'll see even more new stations come online - PVR, CZM, SLC, SAT, AUS, STL, MCI, MKE, CAK, CMH, CVG, BNA, MEM, BHM, RDU, CLT, ORF, JAX, and the long-rumored BLI come to mind as great possibilities!
Flying in the middle seat of coach is much better than not flying at all!
mesaflyguy From United States of America, joined Dec 2012, 724 posts, RR: 1 Reply 24, posted (4 months 2 weeks 5 days 7 hours ago) and read 2097 times:
Quoting beechtobus (Reply 22): At that time MYR-ATL was an new announced route that hadn't yet started, but yes, it was also to be seasonal. The dashed red lines showed the current routes that were seasonal. Spirit color codes routes that start in the future based on start date. I don't think they do this on the route map on the web site any more but if you open the PDF timetable on their web site you'll see this.
Thanks! It also answers my mental question as to when NK actually started MYR-ATL.
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25 RWA380: That is awesome for you, and I mean that. My only 2 flights on NK were two days or less apart, and each 3 1/2 hour flight was crewed by, weary lookin
26 awacsooner: How about you pull up the route maps from ten years ago and compare what their hubs at ORD and DTW were then...then look at them now? Maybe then you
27 mesaflyguy: I had my first pleasant NK cabin crew recently, and it must have brought good luck, as all crews I've had since on NK (three crews) have been smiley
28 FlyDeltaJets: One of my friends got hired yesterday. She is excited. Im sure working as a F/A for any mainline carrier has is benefits and drawbacks. Generally no a
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