News and notes from around the interweb:
- The UK has revoked Flybe’s operating license which is a tool that allows British Airways to capture its London Heathrow slots.
- 15,000 American AAdvantage miles plus 3 miles per dollar spent for a year of WeWork All Access
- Hilton’s 1967 plan for a hotel in space
- Lufthansa will install a single row of first class on the A350-900s it begins taking delivery of in 2023
- In one move, Spirit Airlines will become the second largest airline in Miami. This is a huge threat to American’s domestic and some of their close-in Latin presence. It’s really going to depress yields. American, with its higher cost base, really needs to differentiate with product but that’s not the direction they’ve been heading.
And as though Miami didn’t enough enough passenger fights already…
@BillyCorben #BecauseMiami AT MIA today . pic.twitter.com/BORrNePs58
— Tommy in Hialeah (@Dolphinfan201) April 25, 2021
- JW Marriott coming to the old Fontainebleau site in Las Vegas
- That’s what tires are for, I guess.
LATAM Boeing 787-900 (CC-BGP) sustained multiple tire blewouts to its right maingear following a heavy landing on runway 17L at Santiago de Chile Intl AP (SCEL). Flight #LA509 from Miami vacated the runway and stopped in a taxiway. No one was hurt. @Aero_Magazine @Pabl0Manzanares pic.twitter.com/7QrCkfeg8g
— JACDEC (@JacdecNew) June 7, 2021
Looks like Spirit hires competent businesspeople
As long as they stay out of D, it’s all good as it creates competition and lowers AA fares. Frontier does the same for MIA-DEN routes – one way on AA is usually $94.
There’s more than enough rif-raf and hoodboogers flying through MIA to keep AA and Spirit happily fed for a long time.
With super-cheap airfares from across North America, it appears that wannabe thugs have declared Spirit Airlines the official airline of gang members. The Spirit Airlines gates at Miami (MIA) are their protected neighborhood turf.
After a random beating, gang members can take the next flight out and gloat about their victory while sitting in the Spirit Airlines big front seat. After returning home to get a good night’s rest, gang members can (lather, rinse, and repeat) do it all over again the next day while collecting Free Spirit® frequent flyer miles to quickly earn rewards and elite status. Fighting in the airport means there is no annoying hotel or rental car expense to pay. Brawling at the Spirit Airlines departure gates is the new post-COVID cheap entertainment for Gen X, Y, and Z. An airport gang fight at the Spirit Airlines gates helps keep passengers entertained as they wait for their delayed flight to board.
Fight club in MIA pitting Spirit vs. AA flyers! Sign me up for the PPV!
It’s the modern Titanic. First Class, Second Class, Steerage.
Hopefully this will force AA into BK after stealing from the American taxpayers for thier mismanagement.
@Kevin Spirit Airlines would win a beatdown of AA passengers. Unfortunately, AA passengers are more vulnerable after being beaten, battered, punched, slapped, and pummeled by AA executive management policies.
Flying Spirit airlines is much like riding public transportation after midnight on NYE or St Patty’s. You do it, you regret it, then you find yourself in the same humiliating situation. I have found Spirit to be horrible on certain routes, but it’s usually nonstop and 2ish hours. I can do anything for 2 hrs after being married to my ex. Lol
This is like saying a Grayhound station opened at MIA. . .AA could care less. There will be less fights at AA counters, gates and planes with the Spirt rift raff off of them. They could crush them like the bug they are if they wanted too.
You couldn’t pay me to fly spirit…
I remain deeply skeptical of the Spirit (and Frontier) business model as long as the major airlines continue to treat their leisure passengers humanely. The consumer-friendly rules changes that AA and the other majors have made make doing business with the majors MUCH more convenient. Spirit offers a crappy product that you don’t want to buy unless the alternative is really expensive. I also agree with the other posters that there are more disruptive passengers on Spirit. Clientele can matter. One of the best advantages of a “better” hotel is that you are less likely to be annoyed by other guests (honestly, the difference in actual room comfort can be small). The same principle applies to airlines.
The customers who fly Spirit airline should be putting cargo
Look in the background of the fight video at MIA. The store’s sign says “Urban Decay”. How appropriate…