Spirit
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Spirit Strangely Eliminates a Fare Bundle, Renames the Others
Sometimes watching Spirit work feels like watching someone rearrange deck chairs on the Titanic. The recent announcement that the airline would be…
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Spirit Objects to the United/JetBlue Partnership, Tells DOT to Act
United and JetBlue carefully crafted their Blue Sky partnership to avoid any regulatory concerns. The airlines aren’t codesharing, there is no pricing…
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Spirit Partners with Contour to Find New Markets
Spirit is an airline looking for a network identity. It used to be that Spirit was the ultra low cost carrier (ULCC)…
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Spirit to Transition Its Model to Fly Only on Peak Travel Days
In the post-pandemic world, airlines have been struggling to figure out how to deal with the massive variability in demand by day-of-week.…
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Spirit is No Longer Bankrupt… Now What? BWI Gives Us Clues
In what seems like record time, Spirit has now exited Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The airline is now $795 million of debt…
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Frontier and Spirit Really Want to Merge, but They Can’t Agree on Terms
For three years now, Frontier and Spirit have been trying to merge. Oh sure, there was that little distraction when Spirit ditched…
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The Three Airlines Who Could Benefit Most From Spirit’s Downfall
It continues to get uglier and uglier at Spirit. The on-again, off-again merger with Frontier seems to be off again. The airline…
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Spirit’s New Bundle Pricing is Out, and There is a Pattern Here
Right before I went on vacation, Spirit announced that it would be switching up how it sells tickets, going into bundled fares…
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I’m Taking a Break, So Here Are Some Things to Keep You Busy
I almost never take a break. Even if I’m traveling somewhere, I usually end up pre-writing posts so that you don’t even…
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Route Overlap is a Big Problem for US ULCCs
There is much to be written on what has happened to the ultra low-cost carriers in a post-pandemic world. We will probably…
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Spirit Teases But Doesn’t Reveal Its Plan to Fix the Airline
In the airline industry, cash is king. It’s expensive to operate an airline but as long as you have cash, you can…
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Spirit Airlines Halts Growth Plans and Things Could Get Uglier
If you happen to be around the Fort Lauderdale airport and hear a grinding sound, don’t worry. It’s not an airplane’s mechanical…