Spirit
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Spirit CEO Bob Fornaro on the Benefits of Operational Improvement (Across the Aisle)
Welcome back to the second half of my interview with Spirit President and CEO Bob Fornaro. (If you missed the first half,…
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Spirit CEO Bob Fornaro on Price Competition and Doing What Spirit Does Best (Across the Aisle)
Spirit’s current President, Bob Fornaro, has seen a lot in this industry. After stints at TWA and Northwest, he spent much of…
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Could Spirit’s Big Front Seat Be a Model for the Industry?
If you’ve never had the chance to fly Spirit’s Big Front Seat, you might be surprised to hear that it’s probably one…
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3 Links I Love: Spirit’s Pilots Get Slapped in Court, Bad Small City Subsidies, Baltia’s At It Again
This week’s featured link: Amid Cancelations & Delays, Court Orders Spirit Airlines Pilots To Halt Alleged Work Slowdown – Consumerist I thought…
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Spirit is Fulfilling Its Promise to Run a Better Operation
If you’ve flown Spirit lately, you may have noticed something surprising: the airline is running a better operation than it has in…
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Southwest Reveals Its Ft Lauderdale Plans as a Four-Way Battle Heats Up
Southwest extended its schedule into the summer recently, and the biggest winner was clearly Ft Lauderdale. Southwest is adding six new cities…
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Spirit Does Its Best AirTran Impersonation
When Bob Fornaro took over as President and CEO of Spirit earlier this year, we knew there would be changes to the…
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Where Spirit’s New CEO Is Taking the Company
If you missed yesterday’s post, the new logo you see above is just a part of something bigger happening at Cranky Concierge.…
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Spirit’s Changes CEOs, Hopefully Not So It Can Push for a Merger
We had a little surprise to start the new year when Spirit announced that the architect of its low cost strategy, Ben…
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Alaska Airlines, Alitalia, American, Bombardier, Delta, Etihad, Frontier, JetBlue, Malaysia Airlines, Southwest, Spirit, UnitedReviewing Your 2015 Predictions
It’s a relatively new tradition here on the blog, but I like it. At the end of each year, I ask for…
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3 Links I Love: American AAdvantage Goes Revenue-Based, Allegiant Says Aloha to Hawai’i, Interview with Spirit’s CEO
Today’s featured link: American AAdvantage 2016 Changes (Including Award Chart Devaluation) – One Mile at a Time American announced it was going…
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Topic of the Week: How Important Should Operational Performance Be for Spirit?
At the Boyd conference this week, Spirit gave a long presentation about its efforts to educate people about its unbundled strategy and…