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With U.S. airlines on stronger financial footing, unions are eager to recapture pay and benefits lost during the industrys drastic restructuring from 2002-07. Earlier this week, pilots at Spirit Airlines ( SAVE -0.10%) began voting to authorize the union leadership to call a strike if negotiations with the airline break down. People naturally blame the airline first, but when they hear it's a pilot strike, they just get angry at everyone. That didn't happen, and many of its customers found themselves stranded with limited ability to use their tickets on other airlines. The privately held airline based in Miramar, Fla., carries 16,680 passengers per day about 1 percent of the U.S. total mostly between the eastern U.S. and the Caribbean and Latin America. Airline strikes, due to the importance of the industry to U.S. commerce, are permitted under federal law only after mediated talks fail to produce an agreement. Is there a pilot strike for Spirit Airlines? subject to the rules of our, THIS STORY HAS BEEN FORMATTED FOR EASY PRINTING, By WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Pilots at Spirit Airlines went on strike on Saturday after U.S.-mediated contract talks failed to reach an agreement, a small-carrier stalemate that could influence workers at bigger carriers. Is GDP a good measure of well-being? Negotiations resumed on Tuesday afternoon and lasted until early Wednesday morning, Creed said. Its biggest hub is in Fort Lauderdale, with flights to U.S. cities including Detroit and Atlantic City, N.J., as well as the Caribbean and Latin America. In a statement to the press Monday, Spirit said the airlines issues stem from 'operational challenges,' but would not clarify further. Spirit is profitable, helped partly by low labor costs. [51] If the deal goes through, the unified company will become the fifth-largest airline based in the United States. Sorry, we ICE Limitations. In fact, here's how their A319 pilots stack up against A319 pilots at other airlines. We are frustrated and disappointed that our pilots have turned down an over 30 percent increase at a cost of over $70 million over five years while disrupting thousands of our customers and jeopardizing the livelihoods of our over 2,000 employees, Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza said in a news release. ExxonMobil Employees: You made $20 billion dollars last year, so we deserve a $20 billion dollar raise! "There is no strike," Spirit representative Field Sutton said in an email. But its shutdown is causing major problems for its flyers. So it appears that we're headed on a collision course here, but you might be saying, "at least it's not United or Delta" or something like that right? How awful are your work rules? [76][77], The following aircraft formerly operated in the Spirit Airlines fleet:[citation needed].