Spirit Airlines is currently going through Chapter 11 bankruptcy for the second time in the past year. At this point, the company is trying to reinvent its business model by becoming a lot smaller, and that was supposed to include a lot of employee furloughs.
There’s some good news on that front, as the airline has called off all pilot furloughs. However, it’s not necessarily for the reason you might expect.
The company has now decided to fully backtrack on this decision — now the plan is for no pilots to be furloughed, and for only 25 captains to be downgraded to first officers. The airline will be closing its Las Vegas (LAS) pilot base, though, and giving those pilots the option to instead be based out of Fort Lauderdale (FLL) or Newark (EWR), which is a painful commute, for those who choose not to move.
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