News and notes from around the interweb:
- The people running the airline are not, in fact, the archetypal customers of the airline to be fair.
This might be a fun time to remind everyone that when I worked on the Spirit Airlines IPO in 2011 in banking, the management team refused to fly Spirit. They flew @Delta for the roadshow.
— Ellen DaSilva (@ellenjdasilva) December 28, 2022
- Changi Airport offering free 3-hour pass to the Changi Lounge in Jewel
- Can Southwest regain passengers’ trust? and what the Southwest meltdown means for airline policy.
- United gets ten percent share of Mesa in five-year deal
- Random houses in Riverview Gardens are the new Southwest Airlines baggage storage overflow. (Airtags for the win, again.)
Hey @SouthwestAir, please tell me you’re guarding the stranded luggage. Bc I’m tracking my kid’s car seat and today it moved from the STL airport to a random house in Riverview Gardens… 😕
— Megan Cassidy (@meganrcassidy) December 28, 2022
- The Choreography on the Ground That Puts Meals in the Sky (NYT)
I don’t know who that Ellen person is but she was never an investment banker. All roadshows are done with private planes. Even little tiny $100 million deals.
I don’t like Spirit but I think promoting a comment referring to 2011 is a cheap unnecessary shot.
@David
I was with a small Dallas investment banking firm doing an IPO for a firm offering home health services (aides) and we used commercial flights exclusively. If a big, blue blood, NYC firm is doing the IPO, then I expect you are totally correct. I am not sure which firm was the lead on the Spirit IPO.
I’m not surprised is this news to anyone? I don’t know how that airline stays in business.
My daughter who was in uniform, flew Spirit once. It was from Las Vegas back to Seattle , after her “sisters” wedding. She got home and her luggage had been gone thru. Several hundred dollars worth of stuff was missing. Just try to report it. Ya. They stole from a member of the military. They are disgusting on every level.
I’m a pilot for spirit and this is a sensationalized story, I’ve personally flown with Ted Christy our CEO and he proudly introduced himself on the flight over the speaker as he stood in front of the flight deck
You guys are DRAMA QUEENS
Always fly Spirit
NEVER ANY ISSUES!The same for management ??
I know many people who work for them, and they are not the best in management at all
Crazy world we live in people cause a lot of crap. Yes, there were problems with people on the plane but if people wouldn’t cause crap there wouldn’t be crap.
I worked for Spirit for 10 years and was around in 2011. You have to remember Spirit was a much much smaller airline then with fewer non-stops and certainly less frequency – aside from LGA/ACY to Florida, just about everything was once or at best twice a day. I had to travel for business and Spirit bought me tickets on other airlines with some frequency because I needed to get between two points not easily served or there was just one flight a day. Example: Spirit between LAX and OAK required a 4 hour connection in LAS. A $70 oneway on Southwest was worth my time. Yeah, execs have flown other airlines, when the schedule didn’t work out (or Spirit is full), like to make a day trip. But that’s a good business decision – their time is better spent packing in meetings than sitting in an airport. Oh, execs from some other airlines used to and still do fly NK.
Echoing the Spirit pilot above, I have seen and flown with Ted on flights. One time had him and the COO trying to make a flight last minute. Ted took a middle seat (exit row though) and the COO volunteered to ride flight deck jumpseat so a commuting Southwest F/A could make it on the flight.
To my knowledge many airline execs fly on their competitors aircraft. Makes sense when one wants to check out the competition.
I’ve flown Spirit MANY times, with no issues at all! Yes, less room, less frills but that was known up-front. It’s too bad Covid , Inflation, & the worker shortage has hit this industry so hard..
I will miss the days of $100 tickets round trip. Be careful what you wish for people!!
Yeah you’re an idiot. I literally just shook Spirits CEO Ted Christies’ hand in the Miami airport after he got off a Spirit aircraft. That was December 30, 2022.
I flew Spirit and someone spat heroin in my face and I was solicited by a prostitute.
!!! I LOVE SPIRIT AIRLINES !!!
Let me tell you how HAPPY and satisfied I was to fly on Spirit this past 12/20 and 12/26. Absolutely no issues. Flight on the 20th was on time and flight was delayed only two hours on the 26th. Flew home the day I got off a cruise. One day later I’m on the Facebook page of other cruisers that were on the same ship as me, stating they were still stuck in the airport cause their flights were cancelled and were scrambling to find cars to rent to drive 15-20 hours home. I bet they would’ve had no problem flying Spirit after that experience. That was my first time flying with Spirit and will do it again.
I always fly Spirit and have had no issues. Yes it’s no frills but you know that up front. Want more legroom then buy it. Compare the ticket (pre covid) and you couldn’t beat the price. I once had a cancelation and they offered a hotel & food vouchers. We also received flight credit which all total was more than my original $100 round trip ticket. Flying on other or partner airlines is not news, it’s trying to stir up crap. NOT NEWS
I find it interesting that this person that presumably still works in the financial services industry posted this info. Guess her NDA expired? Sort of off topic, but …I worked in the airline industry for nineteen years (one huge airline for fifteen years and a small airline for four years). Here is the issue I have with flying smaller airlines with lower capacity (say two flights in a market). If things go south (and eventually they will go south) as far as a cancellation, a vacation or trip will be ruined because all the other flights that day and possibly the next day are full. I saw it happen over and over again when I worked for the smaller airline. Initially, we would not place pax fron xled flts on another airline. It was just a refund, nada, or wait. Then we did get a reciprocal agreement with another smaller airline that allowed us to protect on that airline and vice versa. I was reading some airlines updated Contracts of Carriage and was surprised that even many large airlines are not obligated to put passengers on another airline when there is a non-force majeur (sp?) cancellation. But, at least they probably have the frequency to reaccomodate pax same day..
I love spirit so much I bought stock in it. And some of these people are making idiotic comments that don’t make any sense just want to be heard.
Personally, if i we’re a senior executive, I would occasionally fly on a competing carrier just to compare their operation and service to your own, especially if said carrier’s routing and schedule between a given city pair was superior to your own.
I recently match my united 1k to Spirit gold and honestly I like Spirit more then I thought. I only take flights under 3 hours and direct. It’s been great. They won me over.