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Posted on 05/02/2026 2:02:53 PM PDT by Beowulf9
The outcome marks the final flight for the budget airline, crushed by years of operational stress, failed merger attempts, mounting debt, and a brutal jet-fuel price shock that derailed its efforts to emerge from bankruptcy this summer.
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I am not sure if the merger with JetBlue would have worked. JetBlue is having problems now.
https://simpleflying.com/jetblue-debt-9-billion-this-year-united-isnt-interested-founder/
Or Red Lobster
I wasn’t Delta, but I did appreciate a low price “puddle jumper”
Smart customers would purchase specially made clothing that could be stuffed with items that would otherwise make the carry-on luggage either too heavy or too large.
I'd rather walk across the English Channel or Irish Sea than take a Ryanair flight.
My daughter just took my granddaughter on a trip to visit colleges. They were in Florida and her husband booked them a flight from Orlando to Raleigh on Spirit. She texted me before takeoff and said the plane was filthy and the seats were like sitting on concrete. Thankfully it was a short flight.
Are you sure you are not on the wrong thread? This answer appears to have nothing to do with this article.
Not exactly true. Spirit customers fly because the price is affordable, not because they must fly. There may be some customers that must fly, but they will not be the type that gained Spirit’s reputation as ghetto air.
Just like Carnival cruise, they are known as ghetto cruise line because they lowered the price. That drew low class customers. If they raised the prices, that would not necessarily mean all the ghetto customers simply transfer to other, more expensive cruise lines. It’s not a necessity, they simply would stop going on cruises.
Alot of Spirits customer base may fly because it’s affordable, and only because of that. It doesn’t mean they must fly.
What airline will the ghetto species infest next?
It won’t be missed.
and everyone who paid for tickets but didn’t get to fly will all be placed at the bottom of the unsecured creditors list during bankruptcy ...
“She texted me before takeoff and said the plane was filthy and the seats were like sitting on concrete.”
So just like American, Delta, and United.
Here’s the secret the big three airlines loose money on the flights. They make money off people using their credit cards to accumulate frequent flier miles. Economy seats on an ALL US airlines are “dirty and like sitting on concrete” that way they can entice you into overpaying for Businesses Class through credit card debt.
I don’t think Spirit had a credit card.
And a lot of pilots and crews and ground people and all others out of work.
Airlines contract fuel prices for the year. If prices go up or down, doesn’t matter.
Nobody points out that fuel prices were way higher under Biden and the economy sucked.
Is this a rolling contract, or is a set period?
Because (I submit) that if a contract had to be renegotiated/initiated now, that high fuel prices can come into play. The article could be right.
Or Waffle House.
Stretched to the limits spandex weeps.
Delta Air owns an oil refinery in Pennsylvania.
Sounds like a Greyhound bus with wings.
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