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Spirit Airlines furloughing 270 pilots, demoting another 140 amid slower schedule
The Hill ^ | Filip Timotija

Posted on 07/29/2025 1:17:55 PM PDT by crusty old prospector

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To: Texas Eagle

Spirit CEO: “The Greyhound of airlines... Can’t we figure out how to move up a notch or so to the Continental Trailways of airlines?”


21 posted on 07/29/2025 2:18:45 PM PDT by 17th Miss Regt (Fascist, deplorable, and proud of it!)
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To: crusty old prospector

isn’t Spirit Airlines the outfit that has straps hanging from the ceiling for those standing in the aisles?


22 posted on 07/29/2025 2:31:38 PM PDT by catnipman ((A Vote For The Lesser Of Two Evils Still Counts As A Vote For Evil))
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To: crusty old prospector

I used to know a Spirit Airlines pilot likely affected by this.

Hope he is okay.


23 posted on 07/29/2025 2:51:06 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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My boss’s son flies for them.


24 posted on 07/29/2025 3:04:53 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
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To: crusty old prospector

If you can’t afford to go anywhere unless you fly with them, it would be best to stay at home.


25 posted on 07/29/2025 3:10:48 PM PDT by packrat35 (Pureblood! No clot shot for me!)
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I really do not like how they price things. You literally have to assume you pay separate for everything, in quantities that aren’t apparent. For instance, imagine you pay separately for an online ticket, seat, water, every piece of luggage, and quantities of oxygen per fraction of an hour while on the plane, there’s a cost to use the toilet, a cost to board, a cost to debark, a cost for the walkway to and also from the airplane, etc. However, the initial ticket, without anything else, is $8.


26 posted on 07/29/2025 3:36:58 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Wilderness Conservative

What exactly is the joke of their operation?

Spirit has served me well for thousands of miles. Fewer issues than the big carriers. Extremely affordable transportation.


27 posted on 07/29/2025 3:56:01 PM PDT by Rural_Michigan
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Looks like another job for the skanky U.S. judiciary’s “Dipstick judges” that have been hammering the President. They’ve got to forbid Spirit from laying these pilots off. “Temporarily for now.”


28 posted on 07/29/2025 4:04:11 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer ("Kamala Harris would have been the next Abraham Lincoln". - Jeff "Dumber" Daniels.)
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What airport do you fly out of mostly? That may have something to do with your experience.


29 posted on 07/29/2025 5:06:54 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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Fort Lauderdale is the worst one. Never again!


30 posted on 07/29/2025 5:16:09 PM PDT by dfwgator (Endut! Hoch Hech!)
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One of my daughters flies Spirit regularly out of Orlando and has the same experience.


31 posted on 07/29/2025 6:16:56 PM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man, a subject.")
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The furloughed pilots should apply for the in-flight referee jobs that (obviously) haven’t been filled yet.


32 posted on 07/29/2025 6:27:49 PM PDT by Oscar in Batangas (An Honors Graduate from the Don Rickles School of Personal Verbal Intercourse)
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To: Ikeon

Agree they don’t care about their clientele the went woke for a buck a bad business move it’ll be for sale soon.

I’ve noticed people boarding planes they look like street hobos and smell as bad.

Class is a dying issue in most parts of America by people excepting low satandard’s.


33 posted on 07/30/2025 6:35:47 AM PDT by Vaduz
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