Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Bringing this thread back on topic…could we possibly see Spirit launch a “business” offering similar to what F9 recently started? If there’s one thing NK has a leg up on compared to F9, it’s that NK actually has a Business style seat offering up front instead of just blocking the middle seats up fr...

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Feel free to lose it but people want to travel and do pay higher fares - in Europe and the US, and probably elsewhere. The US economy is booming, yes, it is. Unemployment keeps shrinking, and there is talk that the Fed will not cut rates this year as the economy is booming. With strong economy, str...

Re: Spirit to close ACY base, open new Northeast Base

Is there still a pilot shortage in the US? I see Spirit is letting go 260 pilots, how easy will it be for them to find a new job? The problem is other airlines are halting growth too, WN and UA due to Boeing’s problems, DL to an extent and B6 due to their restructuring. While theres still other opt...

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Based upon their true cash burn (used to do stuff like this for a living) Spirit probably has a good year to turn things around. Also I think the airline is getting a payment for engine issues not reflected in 2023 financial statements which would bolster their cash position. A bad summer won't pro...

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Well, they lost about $500m last year so $200m this year will help them break even. This appears to be 2024 only compensation. Not sure what it is/will be for 2023. The biggest chunk of the grounding begins this fall and goes all the way until at least next summer, so this is just part of the payme...

Re: ITA Airways News and Discussion - 2024

I wish LH group was simply not allowed to take over ITA. It is outrageous enough that they were allowed to acquire the big part of Air Berlin operations and practically created a monopoly in the largest EU country. The European Comission and its antitrust policies are a joke. So what was the altern...

Re: Emirates to launch DXB - MIA - BOG?

(Hopefully, I don't get ripped/slammed by the Trolls) I Love seeing airlines taking advantage of Fifth Freedom Flights. MIA to BOG is definitely a heavy market. However, I think it would be better to have chosen a secondary city like MCO. (I Believe) Currently, AV is the only nonstop in the market....

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

Certainly times have changed as shown in a previous post in regards to the current flying climate, but I don’t think in an economic downturn people will be paying a lot for airfare tickets, and regardless of downturns or not people will always fly. It depends on the type of downturn. The downturn i...

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

ULCCs are untested in a major economic turn down such as the early 1980s, the early 2000s and the 2008-2011 period. But of course the Government might just do a "COVID" and shower people with generous unemployment benefits and/or hefty cash payments thus preventing that kind of economic m...

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

If the stock price is in the toilet (so there isn't much shareholder value to be lost), there's no real reason to avoid Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and lots of reasons to embrace it. You can tie in current vendor terms and prices while terminating contracts (aircraft and concourse leases, for example) t...

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

What seems to have changed is business travel. The majors seeing a decline in the business traveller have switched capacity to leisure, something ULCC/LCC’s flourished in - and when given the choice of marginal differences in fare (once you have included the ancillary fees), generally people are ch...

Re: JetBlue CEO resigns.

Flflyer83 wrote:

Flflyer83 wrote:

santi319 wrote:

This is even more proof that B6’s management know the merger will go through

Or the opposite… they’re about to lose several hundred millions in fees. Several hundred that they don’t have.

Any lingering questions on why he resigned?

Re: South Florida Aviation - 2024

LAXdude1023 wrote:

But MIA-NRT/HND would cost at least $140,000 per direction to operate. MIA would be shelling out a lot of money for that.

Re: Norse Atlantic Airways News and Discussion - 2024

The flight times are terrible on the additional frequency, in both directions. Truly awful but guessing that slots and utilization are the reason here. 3:45AM arrival into FCO will have you waiting a long time for a hotel room or Airbnb, unless heading somewhere else and want to get there super ear...

Re: Caribbean Aviation - 2024

As far as I can make out the plan is to use executive jets operated by Bermuda Direct Air Service or ScottsCraft to carry passengers from BDA to Caribbean. I have to say that if I wanted to get from ACC to, say, BGI, I'd rather book UA via IAD or BA via LHR. You need a visa to transit via IAD and v...

Re: JetBlue CEO resigns.

This is even more proof that B6’s management know the merger will go through

Re: Spirit Airlines News and Discussion - 2024

steamgauge wrote:

https://aviationweek.com/air-transport/airlines-lessors/spirit-airlines-nets-419m-cash-sale-leaseback

Sale-Leaseback on 25 A/C, I can't imagine the lease rates being favorable

Re: Pax gets on airfield at SLC and then found dead in an aircraft engine

Police always takes FOREVER everytime there are incidents in the airports. The fact he had time to do all that, before anyone could get to him speak loads about the state of Police security in US airports.

But don’t forget to take off your shoes! Lol

Re: What would Palestinian Airlines look like?

Warranting the borders are controlled by actual Palestine and they are allowed to return to their land, I can see near Middle East (CAI, BEY, AMM, DXB, JED, RUH, IST). International LHR, FRA and the likes. The diaspora is very big for obvious reasons so it would depend on their fleet.

Re: New mexican military managed airline called Mexicana de Aviación announces its first destinations..

Not that I hope for Breeze to keel over but with how much money it is supposedly losing, perhaps Mexicana can end up with MX after all. That said Mexicana could go bust before Breeze. I really like the livery and despite not having high hopes for a military run, vanity project, airline. I hope it w...

Re: Airport gates in US vs elsewhere

This is a reason why lots of gate squatting make some airports have higher fares to certain places.

Its a problem in a country where airports are at capacity limits. Such a waste of a perfectly good resource.

Re: Is there a reason why leather seats are popular in the US?

I found seat cushions disgusting, all the butt fluids just get absorbed, and seeing what kind of outfits the american public travels with you catch my drift.

Re: State of the DOJ?

It’s wild to me how even the DOJ admits the big 4 carriers are doing price collusion and use it as an argument against the B6/NK trial, while simultaneously not investigating or sueing them.

Isn’t that illegal in itself ?

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion - 2023

It seems very strange that the DOJ is alleging illegal price collusion (that they are not bringing legal action against) as a argument as to why two minor players in the industry cannot merge. And this is exactly why the merger will go through. The DOJ failed in the past miserably, and unless they ...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion - 2023

I view LCC as a stage of airline growth, not something that will persist over time. I realize that Europe has had a different experience, but this is not Europe. I will add that it has been interesting to listen to all of the LCC criticism in the past; misleading pricing, terrible onboard experienc...

Re: JetBlue/Spirit Merger Discussion - 2023