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How Big Is the Spirit-Sized Gap?

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Spirit Airlines is gone. The amount of digital ink being spent on the subject is amazing – far more than its market share justified. Meanwhile, the US DoT published its January OnTime, and we updated our ‘Padding’ model. The timing…

RIP Spirit Airlines – Victim of the Iran War

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Spirit Airlines, already on shaky financial grounds, has become the first airline victim of the Netanyahu/Trump war with Iran. The dramatic increase in fuel costs after the war began became too much for Spirit to profitably operate given its existing…