> To our Guests: all flights have been cancelled, and customer service is no longer available
That seems quite a bit stronger than “winding down”!
Sure.
In this case, the bankcruptcy was handled by cancelling all flights with 1 day of notice. This level of ugliness is not necessary.
The capital will probably go to further the AI bubble, I really don't see how that would be more useful than enabling travel.
I don't live in the US but spirit has been the butt of jokes for years.
Can you expand on this? How do you explain e.g. ecosystems around centuries-old redwoods?
Your statement might be true in a system with healthy safeguards ands competition, but that isn't the system we have in the real world today.
You asked if this was caused by or related to bad customer service. This was 100% caused by the increase in jet fuel prices due to the war in Iran. So, once again, you clearly don't follow this area at all and probably shouldn't ask questions about it, especially if you're gonna try to be snarky.
In the US a regional airline would be something like SkyWest.
It has nothing to do with jingoism or nationalism, but Europeans really will try to get offended about this sort of thing whenever they can lol. It's like if you said United Airlines is a regional airline; it's just factually incorrect, there's nothing more insidious or offensive than that. In this case United is a major carrier. You could try to argue that UnitedExpress is a regional airline, but they have such a large national geographic reach that I'd dispute that. Either way, it isn't about America being 'the only country in the world', it's just about a misunderstanding of what the word means in this context.
Ryanair's gross profit margin for fiscal years ending March 2021 to 2025 averaged 19.1%.
Some are (were?) doing just fine - in Europe at least.
Sure, it's no Big Tech or banking, but it's not like the single low digit percentage of eg retail.
Perhaps some USA airlines need some advice from across the pond?
https://www.npr.org/2026/05/02/nx-s1-5807933/spirit-airlines... describes this in more detail.
I flew Spirit a few times. The first time sucked because it was an emergency and I had no other option. The last few flights were great. We got the large seats up front for $75 extra. That plus parking at SJC was still cheaper than flying Southwest out of OAK.
The staff were friendly, and the gate was conveniently across from a lounge, so we had a truly great experience for those couple flights to Dallas.
rvz•1h ago
The market should decide and determines winners and losers, not the government.
So compete.
47282847•53m ago
littlexsparkee•49m ago
edit: do folks not think more competition would be better for consumers? i'm no stan of capitalism but surely it could be made better, sheesh.
phtrivier•36m ago
That being said, I suspect many people had never heard about Lehman Brothers before 2008...
low_tech_love•21m ago
vrganj•16m ago