"As we work to return Spirit to profitability, we face difficult decisions about our network, our fleet, and ultimately our workforce. We need to shift our focus to a complete rightsizing of the airline, which means volume-based adjustments to our Flight Attendant group, and across our teams. This is hard news, and we understand it affects not only you and your peers but also your families."
"The current, voluntary furloughs can be selected for six or 12 months, and those who choose the leave will keep medical benefits while out, according to a note sent by the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) union to its members and seen by CNBC. Bendoraitis said that about 800 flight attendants are already on leave, but there is a "limit to how many people can volunteer." Hundreds of pilots have already been furloughed."
Spirit Airlines will furlough 1,800 flight attendants as part of a rightsizing effort to restore profitability after a second bankruptcy filing in less than a year. The reductions will affect roughly one-third of the carrier's cabin crew and follow earlier involuntary pilot furloughs and the end of service to a dozen cities. Voluntary furlough options of six or 12 months will maintain medical benefits, with about 800 attendants already on leave and limited volunteer capacity. Involuntary furloughs are scheduled to begin Dec. 1. Competing carriers, including Frontier, are adding routes to capture displaced traffic.
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