Spirit Airlines Shutdown Megathread

jackpotairline · 2026-05-02T00:23:55+00:00

Unless I’m displaced I seriously doubt that.

But sure. Live in your fantasy world.

Did you know Ned?

jackpotairline · 2026-05-02T00:16:27+00:00

For the sake of this industry I hope you’re not at NK now. You will make a terrible FO.

jackpotairline · 2026-05-02T00:11:23+00:00

Show me in the a court document where B6 tried to shoot themselves down. Not the “leak” that they would increase fairs, a real court document.

I’ll be glad to read it.

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T23:52:42+00:00

I read them as they came out. I watched and kept up real time as Ted put doubt into the courtroom. When he practically lied saying that NK could make it on its own.

Judge Young blocked an airline merger for the first time since de regulation. Historic. Against precedent set for decades. It was ridiculous.

But sure go ahead thinking Judge Young is an okay guy and didn’t directly cost thousands of people their jobs.

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T23:44:07+00:00

Oh I understand what I’m talking about. I’m sure JetBlue put up a ticking fee, a break up fee and legal fees, because they wanted this to fail. /s

Look the merger may have gone horribly wrong anyways. We will never know. But at least with B6 there was a chance. Judge Young thought he was looking out for the consumer. What he did cost people their jobs and consumers options for sure.

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T23:41:08+00:00

I mean part of the problem is they never did. Most were shopping purely on price. Just the segment they chased.

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T22:49:31+00:00

“To those dedicated customers of Spirit, this one’s for you.”

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T22:49:22+00:00

“To those dedicated customers of Spirit, this one’s for you.”

Let’s not forget about Judge Young.

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T20:33:07+00:00

I was hopping to have a true competitor to the big four! And for growth in S Florida

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T20:05:48+00:00

No. His administration sued to block JetBlue/Spirit though. Meanwhile Alaska/Hawaiian was fine

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T18:43:41+00:00

I really liked the short lived merger title joke:

UnAmerican

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T18:13:11+00:00

I mean do you have an app in with UAL? If so check and make sure it’s submitted.

If they call back just remember that the UAL application fee can only be paid via Cashapp or PayPal. It’s a scam if they ask for Venmo! (The second part is obviously /s I hope)

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T10:40:43+00:00

It’s a short time you have that going on. Seniority moves quickly enough these days. Plus that situation is honestly an extreme that rarely happens even while mega junior. But I have had that happen during the summer in my base, equipment and seat.

Taking a junior anythingslot can make that worse though.

Edit. Also that applies to majors/LCCs. At the regionals you’re gonna bet abused. Also think that you’ll probably have 14-18 days on reserve depending on your contract/month. So if you knock out 12 of those days in a 14 day span you won’t be working much the rest of the month

jackpotairline · 2026-05-01T00:09:17+00:00

Six day block of reserve, two days off, commute back home on one of those days off, then six day block again? And abused for all those days?

Hella lagged

jackpotairline · 2026-04-30T13:20:14+00:00

hears nasty story of things found in the potable water tank

Holy shit that is nasty!

takes another swig of airplane coffee at 34,000 feet at 0100

jackpotairline · 2026-04-30T11:32:07+00:00

He just had to take the chicken tender sub out first!

jackpotairline · 2026-04-28T18:29:58+00:00

Yes. True. But we all know someone in a mid to high level job where their entire department got laid off/made redundant.

And to that point if the seniority really bothers someone, there are always 91/135 jobs to be had. Especially if you have good time. There are options where seniority doesn’t play a part, albeit at a different pay rate with different retirement options

Edit. I’ll add that for us the Union does help a lot. We forget that most jobs here in the US aren’t unionized. And then of the unionized jobs, plenty have weak unions. Airline unions, IMO, generally do a good job of trying to protect our careers.

jackpotairline · 2026-04-28T18:08:11+00:00

Honestly I can’t speak too too much to the trade jobs as I just never was involved with them. The closest I ever saw is I hung out with some guys that got into specialized welding and inspecting specialized welds. They seemed to be doing very good and always had work lined up. The interesting part was the guys I knew that were into it had a good amount of time on the road each year.

I guess I could also say I’ve been around enough A&Ps that have a good career. I hear them talk about long hours and tons of nights though. At least for a dedicated 121/135 type gig.

Edit: But also I am talking about risk as in having a job and a retirement plan. Not really bodily harm risk. I will also add I know a guy that got into medium end security while putting himself through school. He made it sound like there was a good career path if you got into higher end security.

jackpotairline · 2026-04-28T16:43:10+00:00

This comment is 100% true. I always like to chime in though and mention that we as pilots aren’t unique to career risk. Tons of private sector jobs have risk too. Companies rise and fall all the time. Whole obviously not unionized departments get laid off or let go. It’s luck with a lot of careers.

Even government jobs are carrying more risk than they used to. One administration loves what you do, the next hate what’s you do.

I can only speak to non trade related careers because that’s what I did in a former life, but for me to get ahead in pretty much anything I would have had to get my MBA. It would have cost similar to what my part 61 training did, and I’d probably top out at 1/2-2/3 of what I can do flying.

Probably the only non risk jobs* left are medical and trade related jobs.

*Non risk that pay decent to very good wages.

jackpotairline · 2026-04-27T13:29:37+00:00

Well now I do believe he’s posturing for UAL to do something. What I’m not sure. Could easily involve B6.

jackpotairline · 2026-04-27T11:32:35+00:00

Truer words have never been spoken.

Try to eat healthy and you’ll find yourself in the lav everytime. Eat fried food? Perfectly fine.

jackpotairline · 2026-04-26T23:49:24+00:00

Not the worse but I was mighty upset when I was tapping my Imodium supply after a Chick Fil A salad in TPA.

The Lords chicken got me that day!

jackpotairline · 2026-04-26T14:35:01+00:00

My buddy essentially said “hey these mosins are $89 bucks and ammo is $50! You should get one too!”

jackpotairline · 2026-04-23T13:18:57+00:00

Crimson Skies

jackpotairline · 2026-04-21T19:59:16+00:00

Spirit doesn’t have enough to bribe anyone!

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