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Spirit Airlines shut down at MCO today

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Unfortunately in the history of airlines this has happened many times. Airlines go bankrupt, shut down immediately and leave customers and creditors holding the bag.
 

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Unfortunately in the history of airlines this has happened many times. Airlines go bankrupt, shut down immediately and leave customers and creditors holding the bag.
But this isn't the case of an airline going bankrupt -- this is just pure operational incompetency on Sprirt's behalf.

Kurt
 

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Because they are cheap. At least the initial price looks cheap until you add all the fees. The majority of the time they are just lousy, which is not too bad for super cheap flights. I would never fly them for business , as it is critical. But for lots of travelers - the value proposition works.
 

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Now Spirit is up to 60% cancelled flights today. In a class by themselves!

Spirit cancels more than half of its flights on 3rd consecutive day (msn.com)

Why would anyone in their right mind buy a ticket from them in the future???

Kurt

I have intentionally purchased tickets split between discount and major airlines within one trip. Basically when it is worth the “gamble” we fly the discount carrier TO our destination knowing that we may or may not get there on time or at all. Then buy a one-way ticket home on a major airline when it is a destination where we can’t drive home or have to have a better chance to back to work/school on time.
We have done this with Allegiant, Frontier, and Spirit and it has always worked out in our favor.
If we ever have a discount carrier failure, we will just cancel the return and use the credit for a future trip.
 

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And there's more!
Video shows a Frontier passenger being duct-taped to his seat after punching and groping flight attendants, screaming obscenities, and walking around the plane shirtless

And Frontier put FAs on leave to "investigate." Union not too happy.


Somebody must have watched a lot of episodes of the Red Green Show.
 
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I do LYFT part-time here in the Orlando area, and occasionally I pick up passengers at the Sanford-Orlando Airport (SFB). Allegiant is the primary airline there, and they have a constant flow of passengers in and out. I'm guessing Allegiant is like Spirit with being an a la carte airline, but with the large numbers of passengers, it may be the better of the two.

TS
 

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'This is not our proudest moment ': Spirit Airlines CEO says more flight cancellations expected this
weekend.




Richard

Spirit says it's the "perfect storm" but the weather analogy looks more like operational problems - staffing issues
 

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Spirit employee describes working amid the
airline's hellish meltdown, with crying crew
members, screaming customers, and desperate families stranded with young children


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Richard
 
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