This has been reported as US Internal news, but Spirit did service Mexico, the Caribbean and other places in Central and South America.
Their closure has a wide impact.
it’s clear that the non-US services are just spokes and not hubs, though. like news about the subway that brings NJ people to Manhattan would be reported as NJ news, not NY news
Still going to suck for anyone trying to leave Bogota or Lima or any of the other service spots. 😞
Sorta of a blind shot, but does anyone here know where to look for their asset liquidation & auctions?
I can’t afford an A320 but I’m sure they have some good tools, equipment, servers, etc.
Maybe we could all chip in? I’d like a Fediverse A320.
I’m not so sure.
The right wing would be instantly defederated from the rest while the left wing builds three identical versions that all say they wanna go forward while pulling the plane in different directions.
Everybody hates the huge central fuselage but can’t disconnect from it without falling from the sky.
Most of the discussion focuses on snide comments between the slightly different wing designs while all the critical tail components are held together by 3 single selfhosting admins. Then one of them goes on holiday and the tail fin just disappears.
This is one of the single most accurate and succinct analogies of a tech space I have ever read, save possibly for the one that Neal Stephenson wrote about operating systems being car dealerships.
And then the flight attendant gets on the speaker and is like:
HI IT’S ME NICOLE, I’M THE FEDIVERSE CHICK
Then the plane erupts in a giant argument over if the flight attendants are being scammed, trafficked, or if they are the scammers or the traffickers.
Serving beans on an international flight sounds like a fucking nightmare as well.
And the pilots debate nihilism while the flight attendant asks if there’s a doctor on the plane.
I could imagine us mounting a huge effort to get the fediverse jet and even have an instance based on the thing. We would always have a bird in the air, so that the fediverse would belong to no nation and would survive any conflicts.
But then somebody would mention how bad flying the plane is for the environment, and calculate that it breaks down to multiple kg of CO2 per post, and we’d all be like “shit, you’re right” and shut it down.
The taylor swift memes would return
i remember she was supporting " some sort of progressive " initiative, but immediately turned around and complained about her plane being tracked and looking like a hypocrite she is by being polluting. Also hanging out Magat/friends fans.
Real shit though, a fediverse-based co-op would be sick!
I have an Ace combat license. I would love to fly one
Just an FYI
‘Sorta’ is a slang contraction of ‘sort of’ You don’t need an ‘of’ after ‘sorta’
I blame my crappy Samsung android keyboard lol
I’ve noticed it’s especially bad on lemmy for some reason.
It’s sorta of a problem, I agree.
Well in any case. RIP in peace Spirit Airlines.
I bet your sorta blast at partys.
Sorta of uh a blast ish
They will contact one of the larger auction places on your country and let them handle it. Here in Australia it’s Slatterly for cars and vehicles, and Ross’s for other stuff. I’ve bought catering equipment, servers, printers and office furniture from auction. But they sell anything from jewelry and wine to Komatsu mining dump trucks the size of my house.
Usually these are auctioned of at industrial/buiness auction houses. So check out the various bancruptcy auction houses or find out who is their liquidator and ask them. But be warned, it’s rarely worth it.
If you live near one of their hubs thete probably will be some interesting stuff that can be had for cheap. I’ve gotten pretty good deals at industrial auction before.
Did anyone see that guy who snapped his skateboard in half so it would fit in the carry-on, so he could avoid paying the 89 dollar charge? It got viral enough to gain Tony Hawk’s attention
Serious question: What was the entirety of his logic, destroying his skateboard? He may as well have thrown it in the trash & not bring it onto the plane at all, because it’s useless after breaking it in half.
He would have wanted to keep the trucks/wheels/bearings/etc (if you keep that stuff a new board alone would be cheaper than the fee) and it’s a lot quicker to snap the board than sit there taking it apart.
I have no idea about skateboard prices, like at all. But maybe a new board is cheaper than their fee was. You can repurpoe the wheels after all, which I imagine to be the expensive bits.
After all these years, gas prices are what finally does them in…
Now you can be a proud owner of Spirit.
Immediately?
Did planes stop working mid flight? I mean if they’re Boeings they might’ve…If you were willing to play the game, Spirit was an effective way to fly cheap. I have a backpack that’s the maximum size permitted for “personal item”, never carried luggage to check in and brought my own snacks and drinks.
The leg space was atrocious but I’d get their emails to bid on exit row seats, bid the lowest amount ($5-$15) and often win.
I had enough points for a free one-way flight, but alas.
Spirit was the fucking shit. I booked a round trip cross country flight day of for $160. I knew the get down, backpack, pack light. Anyone else would have been $500+ I also got bumped into their BIG seats on one flight and it was phenomenal. I have nothing but good things to say about them which people are always surprised to hear. All the major airlines have become Spirit anyways with the whole basic economy being a thing and charging for carry-ons. Everyone nickels and dimes you, at least Spirit had a low base price. I will miss them.
I genuinely appreciated being able to do a round trip for under $100 all in including train tickets. Like you I had my own backpack, snacks, water and wore extra clothes. Going to miss those deals.
Same experience here. They were treated like a joke, but I never had a bad experience on Spirit. Out of the handful of times I flew with another airline, I had a couple bad experiences (and paid more for it). Fewer options is rarely a good thing so it’s weird to see so many people celebrating.
one last flight to flavortown…
I have a backpack that’s the maximum size permitted for “personal item"
I hate that air lines made this happen. Every flight people with 2 huge bags taking up the bins, taking extra time loading them, bringing all sorts of nasty food and making a mess. It used to be easy, a small bag under the seat (because there was room), and a bigger bag in the hold.
People are really stretching the limits of “one plus a personal item” where personal item should be about the size of a medium to small purse.
Okay, that’s kind of funny. Because I’ve flown Spirit Air, and fuck Spirit Air (the seats are deliberately designed to be more uncomfortable than usual).
But also, it’s kinda sad because it disproportionally impacts people with lower income who need to travel on a budget.
But also, where can I buy their planes? I don’t have any money, or a place to park them. I’m just curious…
They’re not for sale. They just put new lipstick on all of the planes and a new airline will start up in 6 months or so.
THat is pretty much the MO for AMerican companies during financial crisis. They change name and carry on with business.
Nah, that’s what usually happens but they straight up ran out of money and credit. It’s all for sale right now.
Don’t worry Trump will buy it and bring back ‘Trump Airlines’ as a nationally owned airline that he gets all the profits from while the tax payer funds it.
People compare them to Ryanair in Europe but that’s a gross mischaracterisation.
Ryanair is a notorious fuel hedger, locking in prices 12+ months in advance. They also have a craptonne of cash balance that Spirit never built up, so they are completely differently positioned to handle the fuel price shock in 2026.
Unions play a big part as well - in the US, there was a single Union negotiation on behalf of crew but Ryanair didn’t even recognise unions until 2017 and they still have a lot of national unions that they can pick and choose from. While I abhor Ryanair’s anti-union stance it does leave them very well positioned for survival compared to Spirit.
Ryanair have been overthrowing a lot of national carriers that had a LOT of inefficiency in it, whereas Spirit were fighting against large, federal/international carriers with much more heft to them, both to accept price wars and the handle connecting flights (something Europeans generally loathe and Americans accept). It means a lot of the international flights were fed by the airlines’ own routes, rather than Spirit.
Overall, completely different market place. Man, it would be interesting to see Ryanair enter the US.
it would be interesting to see Ryanair enter the US.
Every landing ends with U.S.A. U.S.A.
Cant wait for all the planes to become mobile spirit Halloweens
Never heard of Spirit Airlines until yesterday. Seems people liked it due to the cheap flights.
Here in Europe we have Ryanair for that, but I always feel bad when the only decent price I can find is from Ryanair; they treat their employees like disposable garbage. They were banned from landing in Kastrup for some time because of this.
Usually if I have to pay a little extra to avoid Ryanair, I’ll do it. I hope Spirit Airlines has a better reputation.
Kastrup
Copenhagen, for anyone wondering
They spent the last several years trying to keep this from happening but just couldn’t make it happen in the end. I guess you could say, the spirit was willing…
I hate corporations as a baseline.
That being said, Spirit was cheap and acceptable to me. The customer service was the same I experienced in the “nicer” airlines because they only start caring about you when you aren’t the low class tickets. Sometimes it was a little entertaining because it felt like “NYC Subway in the sky” in regards to weirdos taking the flights, but nobody cared or judged, maybe I was one of them. You were there because you had to be, and they got you where you needed to go. They were the only airline I used to send my son back and forth to his mom’s for vacations, and it was always straight-forward and simple.
Also the Black on Yellow color scheme is nice.
I liked Spirit. Flew an evening flight from DFW to BOS once and sat in the back. Someone had a full sized hoola-hoop. People were crazy. It was fun.
