I hope the Spirit folk land on their feet. Every time I’ve commuted on Spirit, the crews and gate agents are always very helpful and nice (to me, anyway).

but, what do you expect the business leaders or competitors to do? Sit back just hope it works out for the other company? Every competing company is trying to outdo the other. Destroy them, even. This is no different.

I’ll support every displaced pilot as best I can, it I would expect nothing different from any other company.

Did you think they would just sit empty as the industry sits around and weeps the death of some close friend? Get real.

That’s what she said 🤣

As he should. I’d like to see one flight an hour out of every gate in MCO, FLL, TPA, etc from 0600-2000 in order to maximize every available ounce of flying possible. This is a business. Kirby and Quayle are a weakness and an opening in these markets and it’s their job to capitalize on that weakness.

With the insane number of aircraft and pilots coming in 2026 (supposedly), we will need to flood the system just to have space to put all these jets and pilots.

not a Kirby disciple but get a grip man. People are trying to run a business here.

It’s weird that only Kirby got flack, but not F9. They did the same thing a few days ago on about 20 NK routes

The big airlines don’t make money flying people.

https://www.economist.com/business/2...airlines-aloft


“You might expect America’s most valuable airline to earn its keep flying passengers. But you would be mistaken. Last year Delta Air Lines notched up an operating profit of $6bn, comfortably ahead of its domestic rivals. Buried in the financial statements, however, was a more revealing point. Without the revenue from its loyalty programme, it would have operated at a loss.”

He predicts F9 will be gone by the end of next year according to comments made recently. If his track record is any indicator… it wouldnt be the worst idea to start shorting them.

United lags at least 3 other airlines in Florida capacity so it makes sense to be interested should an opportunity present. I like that our pilot group isn’t high fiving each other on forums and elsewhere (like SWA pilots would do in the early 2000s as the big 5 legacies floundered post 9–11)but are mostly showing concern for the effected pilots at Spirit.