Spirit
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Spirit and Frontier: Together At Last
The news broke early yesterday, and people couldn’t stop talking about it… Maury Gallagher is retiring as CEO of Allegiant! Oh wait,…
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Self Bag Drop, Bluetooth, and Wireless Content Loading Take Home APEX Awards
Last night, the APEX/IFSA awards were handed out at the 2021 Expo. I’ve been a judge for these awards — which recognize…
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3 Links I Love: Inside Spirit’s Meltdown, Port Authority Revolt, A New Fifth Freedom Flight
This Week’s Featured Link 7 hours at Spirit’s biggest hub on 7th day of meltdown: The good, the bad and the ugly…
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Spirit Finally Starts Climbing Its Way Out of the Doom Spiral
Operational disruptions happen all the time, but an operational disruption like the one Spirit has been experiencing? That is much rarer event.…
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3 Links I Love: Emailing Ed, United Goes Electric Again, Spirit’s Strategy, Suing Burbank
This Week’s Featured Link ‘The volumes are beyond anything we have ever seen’: Delta hold times won’t improve until fall – USA…
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Spirit Gets Sloppy In Its Efforts to Extract Concessions From American and JetBlue
No airline has been more vocal about the American and JetBlue Northeast Alliance than Spirit, and the fight has stepped up a…
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Spirit Enters Miami in a Big Way Now That Miami Has Lowered Costs
It has been rumored for years, but yesterday it became reality. Spirit will start flying from Miami International Airport beginning in October,…
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Demand Drying Up: Airlines Chop Summer Schedules With Florida Taking the Lead
Friday nights are now one of the most exciting times of the week. Each Friday, Diio by Cirium loads that week’s schedule…
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Spirit Tries to Get Back on Track
Spirit has been an airline on a mission. After years of forcing travelers to suffer through a poor operation and customer service…
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Spirit’s Current and Future CEOs On the Airline’s Continued Operational Improvement (Across the Aisle)
Now I’m back with the second part of my discussion with current Spirit CEO Bob Fornaro and his successor Ted Christie. In…
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Southwest Struggles With Denied Boardings, But Others Are Worse
Yesterday I wrote about the denied boarding trends at Alaska, American, Delta, and United. Today, I’m going to start with Southwest and…
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3 Links I Love: Why Won’t Airlines Fly Here?, European Mergers, Spirit’s Next CEO
This week’s featured link: ROBERT PRICE: Struggling airport, growing city: What’s up with that? – Bakersfield.com This kind of of conversation has…