Originally Posted by
P-3Bubba
I don’t know. Im a suburban CT guy and I see my friends talking about the “Great Deal” Spirit just gave them. Even paying $100 to get their bike on the jet. Jetblue was double to transport his bike. Hes a big Triathlete.
-Bubs
I get it... im a spirit pilot... and I’m proud of the progress I’ve seen here in the almost decade since I started... but I still stand by the product differential being the line in the sand. Even with the upgrades we’re doing with new cabins, WiFi, etc... it’s pails in comparison to the mint experience for example. Not better or worse but different. There’s a market for both and if I’m going from NYC to Vegas on personal time... guess who I wanna ride on? Not my own metal... the seats are awful for anything over 3 hours. The average business person who is paying with a company credit card is gonna use blue 99 out of 100 times. Spirit caters to the leisure market and is trying to market small business owners on budgets. They’ve been successful so far. I interviewed at both... Spirit offered first. I got lucky and I’m very senior with less than 10 years seniority and I literally make my own schedule. Spirit looks good in a recession because they can manipulate things and keep costs and CASM down. IMO (which ain’t worth much) you’ll see Blue continue to spread they’re premium product on transcons and over the Atlantic and be successful. You’ll NEVER see a yellow airplane competing on those routes.