{"id":97167678,"date":"2010-06-17T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-06-17T09:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/pilots-for-spirit-airlines-end-strike-flights-to-resume-friday\/"},"modified":"2014-08-05T09:22:39","modified_gmt":"2014-08-05T09:22:39","slug":"pilots-for-spirit-airlines-end-strike-flights-to-resume-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/pilots-for-spirit-airlines-end-strike-flights-to-resume-friday\/","title":{"rendered":"Pilots for Spirit Airlines End Strike, Flights to Resume Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit Airlines will be back in business Friday after almost a week of strikes from the pilots union. The Air Line Pilots Associations said late Wednesday that a deal has been agreed upon, which will mean planes start flying Friday.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Capt. Sean Creed, leader of the Spirit unit of ALPA said in a statement Wednesday: &#8220;This agreement provides increases in pay and<br \/>\nretirement benefits, protects our work rules, and ensures our job<br \/>\nsecurity at Spirit. After four days on the picket line, this agreement<br \/>\nalso gets this pilot group and this airline back where it belongs-in<br \/>\nthe air.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Miramar, Fla., budget<br \/>\ncarrier represents less than 1% of the country&#8217;s annual passenger<br \/>\ntraffic and flies 150 flights daily mostly from the Northeast to tropical locations in the Caribbean.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>Source: Associated Press <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit Airlines will be back in business Friday after almost a week of strikes from the pilots union. The Air Line Pilots Associations said late Wednesday that a deal has been agreed upon, which will mean planes start flying Friday. &nbsp; Capt. Sean Creed, leader of the Spirit unit of ALPA said in a statement [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97167678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-other"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167678","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/15"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97167678"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167678\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97168698,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97167678\/revisions\/97168698"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97167678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97167678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cheapoair.com\/miles-away\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97167678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}