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Donald Gionta

Donald Gionta

Former Spirit Airlines flight attendant and AFA union representative with 7+ years at the airline and 20+ years in customer service and leadership.

Jun 23, 2026

RichHOST
9:54
Right.
9:55
"She's gonna have benefits.
9:56
Send her wherever she wants to go.
9:58
You know, she'll find her groove." And, um, sure enough, I, uh, I, I applied at some mainlines not knowing what I was getting into.
10:07
And, um, I was in a Facebook group of potential flight attendants, and, um, I ended up creating a private message with a flight attendant who I, um, pinged that worked at a few different airlines.
10:19
And I asked them, like, "Hey, could I ask some questions just about you're mainline, you're low cost, you're smaller, you're larger?" And, um, believe it or not, uh, the consensus in the entire group was, "You should go for a low cost carrier," um, one who was very competitive with Spirit, and Spirit was also on the list.
10:39
And, um, the more I looked into it, Spirit was hiring for Florida bases.

36 MINS LATER

RichHOST
47:05
If you could speak directly to every Spirit Airlines flight attendant or team member affected by this whole situation, what is one thing you would say to them?

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