Spirit Furloughing

I suspect NK will be just fine. I suspect they'll take another run at a merger as part of their bankruptcy POR. If furloughed, Id hangs on to that seniority number as long as possible.
 
Kingairer said:
I suspect NK will be just fine. I suspect they'll take another run at a merger as part of their bankruptcy POR. If furloughed, Id hangs on to that seniority number as long as possible.
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The chances of a management group who gets a company in to BK being competent enough to get them out is very low.

I hope folks that want to bail can.
 
Cherokee_Cruiser said:
I was being polite. To answer your question for real? Here it is: the other airline labor groups had a pair, and got a union voted in. Delta spends enough money on anti-labor material (advertisements like PS5), and has enough KoolAid effect to keep unions out of FAs and other groups outside of pilots/dispatchers.
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Ironic you support a party that is anti labor unions while touting the benefits of a union. Well done with your mental gymnastics.
 
Skåning said:
Ironic you support a party that is anti labor unions while touting the benefits of a union. Well done with your mental gymnastics.
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*checks notes*


*realizes irony of this thread existing in the first place thanks to a certain previous Presidency and DOJ stance of busting any big mergers*

Had the merger been approved and closed in Jan 2024, Spirit would be in a different position. If it was Trump, that merger would have been approved.


Under Trump, you’ll probably see mergers. Maybe Spirit, Frontier. Or JetBlue in the action again. Allegiant.
 
derg said:
A cheeseburger DOES sound delightful!

Kind of craving a “Pre Chicago” Whataburger. They kind of blow now.
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I’m torn. Pre-Chicago seemed much better. But Post-Chicago means I’m getting one 10 mins from my house outside ATL and that makes me happy.

I don’t know how much the sale had to do with the quality seeming to go down, or if it’s post covid inflation driving cost cutting, but one thing I have noticed is that the further away from Texas you go, it seems the quality decreases as well.
 
I haven’t had a good burger from there since the pandemic ended. They used to be on-point on PHX but something changed or it might just be harder to go from my much broader palate.
 
derg said:
I haven’t had a good burger from there since the pandemic ended. They used to be on-point on PHX but something changed or it might just be harder to go from my much broader palate.
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I don't know when they got bought out but I remember having it even in Texas in 2019/Early 2020 and not getting what the hype was about. I'd just as soon eat at McDonald's.
 
Some fast food chains are highly consistent, like In-N-Out and Chick-Fil-A. It doesn't matter which one you go to, you always get the same high quality result (within the context of fast food). Whataburger might have been like that once, but it certainly isn't anymore. There are good and bad Whataburgers, even here in Texas. Sadly, one of my worst experiences occurred at the one in downtown San Antonio, which has no excuses for missing the mark. I think we're down to one respectable location in my city. I believe it's had the same local manager for a long time and she knows what she is doing. The food is as good, and as fast, as it ever was. Which is to say, decent fast food. If that one tanks, I'm done.

All the best to the Spirit guys. I don't have anything to offer - other than the address of the last True Whataburger in the north Texas burbs.
 
Here we go again?!


Bankrupt Spirit Airlines said it turned down a new merger offer from rival budget carrier Frontier Airlines.

Frontier said Wednesday that it has met with Spirit’s board and executives since it made its debt-and-stock merger proposal on Jan. 7. Frontier executives said in a email to counterparts at Spirit this week that their plan is better than Spirit’s own plan to emerge from bankruptcy.




“We continue to believe that under the current standalone plan, Spirit will emerge highly levered, losing money at the operating level, and this would not be a transaction we would pursue,” wrote Frontier Chairman Bill Franke and CEO Barry Biffle in a Tuesday email to Spirit Chairman Mac Gardner and CEO Ted Christie. “As a result, time is of the essence.”

Christie and Gardner told their Frontier counterparts that they were rejecting the offer, calling the terms “inadequate and unactionable,” according to a letter shared in a securities filing on Wednesday.
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