I wonder if they are done until 2021 and beyond. We only wanted 5-6% extra growth per previous investor presentations and they just increased the fleet plan by 10%.

What happened between when this interview happened and the investor call this week?

https://airlinerwatch.com/spirit-airlines-to-buy-regional-jets-to-fill-the-gap-in-barely-served-routes/

Obviously the need to serve secondary routes still exists. There are plenty of underserved markets with decent populations not served by Spirit. Clearly Spirit does not rely on regional feed - so, an alternative would be to use efficient 100-120 seat jets to serve those markets (eg Des Moines, Spokane, Tucson, Baton Rouge, Syracuse, Burlington, Grand Rapids, Little Rock, Colorado Springs, Harrisburg, Greenville/Spartanburg, Billings, Fresno, etc.) profitably...

I suspect another poster may be right. Spirit waited too long to grab a large number of bus slots and is stretching out its fleet plan and snagging the odd 320 here and there until they can place a proper order.

The Farnborough Airshow in the UK takes place in June, and the Airbus/Bombardier JV should be finalized by then. Perhaps we’ll hear something then with the typical Airshow dealmaking.... Who knows, if the price is right, maybe a combo Airbus/CSeries deal? You never know...

Just stop.

No thanks. Last time I checked this was an open forum. Quit being a closed-minded, uninformed cyber bully.

They paid under $20m sticker is $80m. It was such a "good deal" Bombardier was sued for dumping.

But it’s a game changer! Delta should have paid $160m easy! Lol I didn’t realize they got that good of deal.

What about a 737 and e190 deal since Boeing and Embraer are in merger talks.

I wonder what will happen with the Virgin/Alaska merger? Will they convert to an all Boeing fleet? What will become of Virgins Airbuses? Will those be Airbuses be ripe for the snagging? Just a thought.