Spirit Furloughing

[ASpilot2be]

I'm gonna be called a communist for this, but if this is the new trend, with possibility more airlines to follow, we should just re-regulate the industry like in the CAB days.

Communist

 

[JordanD]

I'm gonna be called a communist for this, but if this is the new trend, with possibility more airlines to follow, we should just re-regulate the industry like in the CAB days.

The right just calls everyone a communist anyway so does it even really matter anymore?

 

[CoffeeIcePapers]

As much as I feel for the Spirit peeps, I just can’t feel good about the US Taxpayer shipping over 500 million for the Spirit Management team to light on fire.

On the other hand, it’s still a better use of tax payer dollars then giving it to Daddy Raytheon to blow up brown people across the globe.

This buys them at most, a quarter of operating expenses. They have failed twice to turn it around and don’t seem to have any answers.

 

[Box hauler]

This buys them at most, a quarter of operating expenses. They have failed twice to turn it around and don’t seem to have any answers.

Yup, if we’ve learned anything it’s that $500M doesn’t turn spirit into a profit machine.

 

[pwttogfk]

I'm gonna be called a communist for this, but if this is the new trend, with possibility more airlines to follow, we should just re-regulate the industry like in the CAB days.

This. This right here. The current status quo is that they’re a business whenever there’s an attempt to regulate their usage of taxpayer-funded infrastructure to make a profit and they’re essential infrastructure whenever they’re losing money from their poor decisions. Either completely gloves off and they can pay for their own runways and controllers or they accept reasonable regulation.

 

[B200 Hawk]

The right just calls everyone a communist anyway so does it even really matter anymore?

They call everything socialism and then ignore the actual socialist things. I loved my time at spirit there but listened to so much “socialism” fear mongering and red hat kool aid and now it’s just fine and dandy to them. I don’t want them to fail at all but talk about hypocrisy.

 

[Minuteman]

Just kinda peeking at Spirit's latest 10-K, it looks like they have been losing ~$1.5bn to $2bn annually since 2024 on $3bn to $5bn revenue.


The president bankrupted a casino, you say? He must have amazing luck!

What do you mean, "not that way?"

 

[Cherokee_Cruiser]

They call everything socialism and then ignore the actual socialist things. I loved my time at spirit there but listened to so much “socialism” fear mongering and red hat kool aid and now it’s just fine and dandy to them. I don’t want them to fail at all but talk about hypocrisy.

Far too many airline pilots hypocrites out there. Had a buddy from Pinnacle who went to Spirit. Anti-socialist views, how people are lazy, less social programs, etc. I bet he’s gonna silently be okay with this bailout. Weird how that works.