Spirit to halt all flights as of early Saturday

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DieselPunkPiranha@reddit

Spirit is the first major US airline in 25 years to go out of business because of financial problems.

There'll be more. I suspect only congress's favorites will receive bailouts and there can't be that many when most federal politicians fly their own business jets or the government's.

I wonder how long it'll be before the international airlines begin cancelling flights to/from the US.

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Planeandaquariumgeek@reddit

The last one was TWA, which went bust in December 2001. They had been in financial trouble since the late 80’s but 9/11 was the final blow.

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jbot14@reddit

They'll sadly have to keep flying to the US just to take on fuel...

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RelativePea8217@reddit

Spirit Airlines served a purpose of segregating the ghetto hoodrat types into one area

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Educational-Desk8758@reddit

I can’t afford fuel for my car and I live in a car dependent area. Looks like travel is going to be difficult to impossible for the average person very soon

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gonyere@reddit

We were planning on driving out west on a road trip, in July. I kinda doubt that's going to happen.

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nelsonalgrencametome@reddit

I'm also rethinking summer travel and really not happy about it.

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gonyere@reddit

Yeah. it's more like 'umm .. what can we do within 3-4+ hrs'. Very unfortunate. Maybe we'll hit the youghiogheny or something.

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unclebillylovesATL@reddit

Damn, first time I’ve see that name in the wild. My first white water river of many.

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malichev@reddit

Just the tip please.

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MsPreposition@reddit

So they got a bail out with tax payers dollars during the pandemic, refused to honor the credit I got for my flights when everything shut down, and now they’ve mismanaged their money again?

Sounds like they have no right being in business at all.

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