alt Hacker NewsSpirit Airlines canceled all flights and is going out of business
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One of the best flights I've ever taken was Spirit and had 8 passengers on it, 5 of which were transferring staff/pilots. The second worst flight I've ever had the pleasure of enduring was also Spirit - the worst was Easyjet (simply because their seat dimensions are somehow smaller than the average human and generally incompatible with human physiology), and third worst was Ryanair because a mass of orange colored Brits are with near a unlimited supply of duty free gin is... amusing enough to move it up a few notches.
Control-F "antitrust". Zero hits.
Why no discussion of "yet another victory" for antitrust? Was 2024 really that long ago?
https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/justice-department-s...
Spirit was a once and never again situation for me personally. But I’d like to think it helped drive prices in some of the competing routes.
I won't miss the nickel and diming that's for sure...
Good news for Frontier it seems
If it lowers air travel then it's a good thing, since it's probably the only way the US will meaningfully invest in high speed rail.
Spirit dying is going to mean prices go up substantially across industry. They provided a price floor above which other airlines couldnt raise prices without risking losing business to spirit. Usually the difference was pretty small, basically a market calculated fee for not wanting to deal with Spirit. But since their bankruptcies, in areas where they have pulled out, the other airlines have been seen to raise prices by something like 12-15%. I would expect similar or worse now that they're gone for good.