You must have a restriction on your medical that says "must posess and wear coke bottles at all times" . Our planes don't get cleaned that often. On the other hand, the FAs are mostly awesome, and I do like that we can load or unload a 321 in about 12 minutes. When people don't bring on a dead moose and a mattress, boarding goes rather quickly. Welcome aboard!

hahah, Maybe I am used to the RJ, We have no cleaners, the airplanes are falling apart, people throw their trash everywhere, there is salt everywhere from the hard stands etc........... CAL always had clean planes, but AA & UAL, & US Airways I always feel like showering after a flight..........

I dunno- the last few I've been on in the back were pretty clean. I think the "thru flights" get the brunt of the nastiness; those that stop at a station for a few minutes seem to get a little more attention. That- and Latin America

1/2 price? I just took 2 minutes and looked up a OW in March from FLL-LGA and saw Spirit at $108. Travelocity shows Delta, JetBlue, Airtran, and USAir all between $102 and $110. It seems that most haven't figured out the total cost.

I was more referring to the construction of the DTW trips. But, thanks for the info!

Searching old threads it looks like DTW was closed or threatened to be closed down. Does it seem stable as of today?

Interesting. May be they are dropping the hammer on us in LGA. I too did not find any date where we are the cheapest on that route. Same for FLL-ORD. Delta is matching our price out of FLL on the LGA route. On the other hand:

FLL-ATL us 73.90 Delta next with 126.90
FLL-BWI us 53.90 Tranny next with 68.90

... and that is typical.

If Delta is matching or beating our price, I guarantee you, they are taking a loss. We are tiny. We can't get into a war with Delta. This is nothing new. May be next for sale are the LGA slots. They are worth a ton of money, and we can use that money for expansion. We pulled out of DCA, sold the slots to SW, went to BWI. Sounds good to me.

Would you define 'stable' as it refers to the airline industry?





I don't think there's anything stable about our base structure. The immediate bet is DFW will grow. Outside of that, I don't think any base is 'stable', others may have a different opinion.

Ben Baldanza was just on CNBC, explaining Spirit's last qtr, his optimism for Spirit going forward and ancillary fees.

I like his optimism and the way he explained the ancillary fees.

I'm not as confident in his response to the AA-US Air merger though, but it does look like he sees clear skies in front of Spirit, which is good.

The bases at this company can come and go. The way it was explained during the interview was that whatever market is profitable, then that's where they will go. In other words, if Chicago takes off and becomes an integral part of the operation, then it might come at the expense of another base. This is a hypothetical situation, but realistic at that. I don't think it is something that will happen overnight, but maybe over time.

I'm not based in DTW, maybe some of the guys that are based there can give you an idea or trend on how the trips are build.

About DTW closing or being stable, well there are not current indications of closing, then again, as Norman mentioned, DFW is the growing mushroom and the rest is as stable as this industry can be.
There were "RUMORS" about closing for a long time, they come and go.