The Iran war and fuel prices doubling is not the demise of Spirit. Incompetent management, declaring bankruptcy and swindling the shareholders twice, Pratt engine issues, terrible customer service and reliability, that’s what brought Spirit down. People think twice when booking their flights on Spirit because they’re not sure if they’ll actually make it to their destination.

The high fuel prices just sped up the inevitable

it will be interesting to see if Spirit can manage to swindle the government as well.