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Old 09-16-2025 | 07:12 AM
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Andy
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Originally Posted by sailingfun
Basic economy has little to do with Spirit’s situation. Horrible customers service is the cause.
NK's had horrible customer service since the day they started operations. NK was profitable until 2019. United and American followed Delta with a Basic Economy product in 2018. All three expanded Basic Economy offerings in subsequent years.
But sure BE has, little to do with Spirit and Frontier's (F9 was also losing money every year until they eked out a very small profit in 2024) financial issues.

Originally Posted by Chimpy
this is completely wrong. You absolutely can not Drop down to zero ANYWHERE as easily as you could at Nk, you could spend all day, everyday trying to drop at AA, UAL & DAL and some months it just isnt possible.
I'm at United and I dropped my entire schedule in July and August this year with very little effort. Around 50% in seat seniority. Didn't take much work for me. But it does depend on BES. More importantly, you need to understand how to work the system.
I dropped almost all of my schedule in the previous few summers (not quite to zero) and picked up premium trips.


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