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Posted by bjhess 15 hours ago

Let's Buy Spirit Air(letsbuyspiritair.com)
438 points | 418 commentspage 4
tyjkot 11 hours ago|
Feels scammy… that’s all I’ve got to say.
williamDafoe 8 hours ago||
What a foolish mistake!

On Our maiden voyage aboard spirit, they dumped us halfway home, in las vegas. No compensation, no meal voucher, no overnight accomodation - they just DUMPED US (along with 30 other connecting passengers).

Spirit seems incapable of holding a flight even 5 mins for connecting passengers delayed via spirit's incompetence!

We saw them slam the door 50FT away to our connecting plane as we got off our plane. We watched in horror - our faces against the airport glass - as our next-leg pilot looked up at us and sat on the tarmac 30ft away doing NOTHING for 20 minutes as Spirit told us "nothing could be done" and "you missed your connecting flight" and "see the agent to get DUMPED AND NOTHING, later".

consumer451 13 hours ago||
> if a farsighted capitalist had been present at Kitty Hawk, he would have done his successors a huge favor by shooting Orville down. The airline industry’s demand for capital ever since that first flight has been insatiable.

- Warren Buffett (Comedian)

metalman 4 hours ago||
100% guarantee of years of uncertainty, so any large venture built on disposable income is a non starter. The Cruise Ship industry is precarious, and with a hanta virus outbreak on one ship pointing to just how shoddy the whole thing needs to be for profit, a surge of sick ships is likely. Fuel for planes and ships could cost much more, and then become unavailible in certain locations, which would be part of the recipie for a full crisis involving a sick ship or resort, some small country refusing (legitametly) a quarantiened ship, whatever scenario, the point is that running these huge tourist operations requires significant EXCESS capacity, not missing pieces and ultra slim margins.
opengrass 14 hours ago||
Looks like well-worded scam.
swaits 14 hours ago||
Let’s throw good money after bad!!!

Brilliant.

westmeal 5 hours ago||
How much you wanna bet they're going to take the money and run lol
fragmede 1 hour ago|
They're not taking money, people are pledging it.
hellojimbo 10 hours ago|
why not just start your own airline instead of buying one that is dysfunctional and losing money
Ekaros 8 hours ago||
In current era of regulation for starting airline is huge amount of paperwork. All sorts of permits, plans, filed documents and so on. So much so that just buying parts from collapsed one is cheaper option.
danaw 9 hours ago||
because airplanes, routes, employees, pilots etc arent exactly easy to come by without a whole lot more time and capital expenditure
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