Originally Posted by
Noisecanceller
This is happening because of the massive decrease in block hours with the same amount of gates at our disposal in FLL. Don’t kid yourself, if we were running full tilt you’d be waiting plenty and we’d be losing even more money. This place has no path forward to profitability without a merger. The bankruptcy did nothing to improve our financial position other than buying time and getting the shareholders out of the way.
It’s merger or death and the clock is ticking. Two clocks actually. One is the cash burn which can get some time added if they sell some airplanes and the other is the debt they kicked down the road a few years which is why we declared bankruptcy in the first place. We aren’t magically going to have $2 billion in a couple years and won’t be credit worthy to get it refinanced outside of bankruptcy.
The legacies have too much power now. You cannot be successful without scale. This is a pump and dump scheme right now. Lipstick on a pig.
totally agree, Spirit’s gotta show a profit in Q2 or some turnaround sign, or we’re in deep trouble. Q1 2025’s $143M loss, on top of 2024’s $1.2B, won’t vanish.
No hires in two years should have saved millions, but recalling or hiring will spike costs for pilots and support, dragging us deeper into the red. Maybe they sell more aircraft, tweak staffing ratios, or somehow recover. These two years taught me: seniority matters, but it’s more about how many are behind you than in front. I’d take 2500 behind me at a legacy in 12 months over 500 and stagnation behind me at NK for job security any day.