Ok /n/, if you were in charge of Spirit how would YOU have saved it?

>>2072232
I never got to fly on them... I wanted to but then I kept getting cheaper deals with Breeze and Southwest

>>2072234
Allowed the Frontier merger to happen

>>2072234
not let blacks on the planes

>>2072236
Then why is Delta so successful having Atlanta as it's main hub?

>>2072234
pivot to land buses booked like they're flights
but make this fact extremely opaque to the customer like AA does for Philly to Atlantic City

>>2072232
>suffer a lot during covid
>have the opportunity for a merger
>refuse
>file for bankruptcy
>somehow manage to survive
>have opportunity for a merger
>refuse
>file for bankruptcy again
>have the opportunity for a bailout
>refuse
>die
but yeah i'm sure the shareholders got a bit more on their dividends for a few years

>>2072234
I wouldn't say a single word to them, I would listen..

Can someone explain to me why air travel is going through a hard time? It's the fuel prices? Don't they buy futures to kind of normalize swings in fuel? I don't know anything about the airline industry.

>>2072254
furthermore I thought most airlines lose money every year, which they MORE than recoup from their loyalty programs

>>2072248
It was the FTC that declined the mergers

>>2072237
Pretty sure Delta makes most of its money transporting abducted children on behalf of the government now

>>2072254
we're at the brink of a 1929+2008 recession if not depression

>>2072234
really lean into the nigger aspect. rebrand as a hip hop ghetto fab experience on top of your affordable flight. partner with World Star

>>2072254
air travel has been historically very low margin and full of staff that are highly paid. airport operations are notoriously expensive and janky and not easy to automate (or at least more expensive than simply not doing it). and its not just coof/fuel/etc making people travel less, tourism is down all over the place and was dropping steadily for ages and business travel is less and less common or even necessary (that flight to NY could have been a PolyCom call and increasingly just is)

>>2072239
>board plane
>it just taxis to the next town over
would be based

>>2072237
Delta also has a hub in Detroit. Are niggers really NOT the problem for once?

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>less jobs for pilots
>less jobs for flight dispatchers
>less jobs for rampers, FAs, etc.
>sub-$100 fares increasingly becoming a thing of the past
the death of spirit doesn't bode well for anyone involved in the aviation industry

>>2072260
Only with B6, NK rejected F9's frontier merger twice and the government would have been less likely to block that merger.

>>2072234
put the remainder of the company's savings + a loan into AAPL call options that expire tomorrow

>>2072234
By calling it Frontier.

>>2072276
Delta also has hubs in Seattle and Salt Lake City. So yeah, race really isn't a factor here.

>>2072254
Delta thought ahead and purchased an oil refinery, which makes them somewhat less exposed to fuel price issues. They still have to pay higher prices for oil but they don't have to deal with the profiteering that happens during times of rapid cost increases.

>>2072296
>Flying is once again a luxury experience
>Poorfags can roadtrip
Isn't this what air travel enthusiasts have been pining for since the 90s? And pilots don't need more work, there's a shortage of them, remember?

>>2072324
I remember when they bought that plant. Financially that was really risky for them, if that endeavor went south it would have wrecked the company, but it seems to have more than paid off. I'd like to know more about it desu

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>>2072325
The pilot shortage was a pyop to curb union pay. There is currently WAY too many pilots and now a huge chunk of experienced pilots just got dumped into the low time market good lord

>>2072326
I don't live in Atlanta anymore so I don't really have inside info like I used to. From what employees told me, the refinery was pretty run down but Delta didn't buy it on a lark, thinking it would be magic. They hired experts in the refinery business and invested in modernizing the facilities. They knew they had to do it right and treat is as a long term strategic asset.

>>2072327
>A bunch of highly experienced white guys retired on a full pension so DEI pilots can fly cheaply.
Surely this will be ok.

>>2072329
this fully this look at every black person You know they are all pilots.
https://blog.exitgroup.us/p/how-the-eeoc-built-americas-secret

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>>2072234
i don't know, how should i know?

>>2072248
>>2072235
>>2072254
>>2072322
>Muh frontier
Newsflash, shitheads. Spirit stayed in business because they didn't merge.

"If it's BOEING, I ain't going" was there literal selling point for a solid 25% of their passengers, ones who are price insensitive and would pay nearly any price to have that.

Spirit had all airbuses. Not a single Boeing piece of shit in their fleet. Not a single stupid Brazilian ebradier. Frontier uses these retard brands. If they had merged, literally would never fly with them because in that stupid alternative reality, the fleet of shit frontier planes

I never fly Boeing or Embrarier. I would pay $2000 for a spirit flight and most people would too. They should have jacked the prices up 8x and flexed hard on being Boeing and brazil shit free and having the only 100% no fatality or crash airline in existence.

>>2072358
even the worst shitbox airplane is safe enough where that's not worth worrying about. i think spirits main draw was price.

>>2072358
And now you won't fly with Spirit because they've ceased operations but amazing ego on you to think your flight preferences is the difference between a company's bankruptcy and success.

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>Named "Spirit"
>*dies*
Who the fuck is writing this shit?

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>>2072232
The American goy doesn't deserve low cost airlines. You will pay up and you will like it. Meanwhile Eurochads can still fly anywhere on the continent for €29.99

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I hated Spirit but flew a couple of times into LaGuardia, where they use the old Marine Air Terminal, a 1939 Art Deco Time Machine. Not too many gates, a short walk to luggage and ground transportation, and lots of retro futuristic murals and chrome. I hope some other airline jumps on that.

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>>2072232
>F

>>2072232
>jockogood.jpg

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>>2072608