Spirit Airlines ceases operations after escalating financial struggles
3d 4h ago by mander.xyz/u/Deep in news from text.npr.org
Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines, which had been struggling for years, announced it will cease operations.
Spirit had been seeking a $500 million federal bailout from the White House. But those talks failed to yield a deal, leading the airline no choice but to stop flying "effective immediately".
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For all the pilots, flight attendants, technicians who are affected by this.
You mean to tell me being the worst airline to the point you become a punchline is a bad business model? 😯😯😯
Hard disagree. Not crashing is a ridiculously low bar. They had hidden fees and reduced customer service to the point I felt more like cattle the couple of times I had to fly with them. The problem here is these companies have poor regulations and over consolidation. It was the deregulation of the industry that fucked it all up. Also, given its environmental impact flights shouldn't be dirt cheap anyways. We should build out high speed rail throughout the country.
Good. “Free market” yes? Now better company buy and work better
In theory, yes. But in reality, reduced competition means less need to compete. Worse service over the long run and higher prices.
TIL that Spirit had never had a plane crash in their entire existence. They were at least doing something right. Oh well.
Well, they also had less flights than other airlines. Like a lot less.
Also, southwest, jetblue, Hawaiian (97 years), and frontier have never had a fatal crash either. So not that impressive.
I cannot believe Joe Biden caused a whole airline to go out of business.
Are you high? This was clearly Obama's fault!
You're both wrong. Obviously it was that Confederacy hater Lincoln's fault.
That isn't as joking as you might think. The Biden administration got the merger of Jet Blue and Spirit Airlines called off.
Because surely this has nothing to do with their customer base having no disposable income for travel. It must just be the oil thing
Will planes get goofy expensive that society goes back to supporting trains?
No, airplanes are not being bought up by speculative AI investors.
I want to see more passenger vessels too
I liked their graphic designs, and they were often the lowest price for where I wanted to go. I didn't fly enough to run into their notorious problems.
What will all the Jerry Springer travelers do?
Greyhound still exists.
Some of the best police body camera content!! What an advertisement to not fly on that airline.
Thankfully we've got those memories forever lmao
Woop woop
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Damn I actually liked Spirits big front seats for the price of a Southwests regular flight.
Seems like they shouldn't have escalated those financial struggles. Idiots.