Spirit
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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…
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Does an Airline Need a Toll-Free Phone Number?
Frontier is doing away with its toll-free number as part of its transition to being an ultra low cost carrier (ULCC), and…