This has been reported as US Internal news, but Spirit did service Mexico, the Caribbean and other places in Central and South America.
Their closure has a wide impact.
Sorta of a blind shot, but does anyone here know where to look for their asset liquidation & auctions?
I can’t afford an A320 but I’m sure they have some good tools, equipment, servers, etc.
Maybe we could all chip in? I’d like a Fediverse A320.
I’m not so sure.
The right wing would be instantly defederated from the rest while the left wing builds three identical versions that all say they wanna go forward while pulling the plane in different directions.
Everybody hates the huge central fuselage but can’t disconnect from it without falling from the sky.
Most of the discussion focuses on snide comments between the slightly different wing designs while all the critical tail components are held together by 3 single selfhosting admins. Then one of them goes on holiday and the tail fin just disappears.
This is one of the single most accurate and succinct analogies of a tech space I have ever read, save possibly for the one that Neal Stephenson wrote about operating systems being car dealerships.
The two wings entirely forgetting that the point of their existence is to support the massive population in the centre of the airplane just trying to get where they’re going is pretty peak political commentary
And then the flight attendant gets on the speaker and is like:
HI IT’S ME NICOLE, I’M THE FEDIVERSE CHICK
Then the plane erupts in a giant argument over if the flight attendants are being scammed, trafficked, or if they are the scammers or the traffickers.
Serving beans on an international flight sounds like a fucking nightmare as well.
I’ll chip in as long as I can fly it – I have 1000+ hours in flight simulator
As if you and me are allowed to benefit from the “free” market like that lol. No. Don’t worry, everything that isn’t already spoke for or owed to someone will go to someone who already owns things for a living.
Learn your place
a380 or gtfo
Those are about to be on the market as well.
Just an FYI
‘Sorta’ is a slang contraction of ‘sort of’ You don’t need an ‘of’ after ‘sorta’
I blame my crappy Samsung android keyboard lol
I’ve noticed it’s especially bad on lemmy for some reason.
It’s sorta of a problem, I agree.
Well in any case. RIP in peace Spirit Airlines.
I bet your sorta blast at partys.
Sorta of uh a blast ish
Usually these are auctioned of at industrial/buiness auction houses. So check out the various bancruptcy auction houses or find out who is their liquidator and ask them. But be warned, it’s rarely worth it.
If you live near one of their hubs thete probably will be some interesting stuff that can be had for cheap. I’ve gotten pretty good deals at industrial auction before.
They will contact one of the larger auction places on your country and let them handle it. Here in Australia it’s Slatterly for cars and vehicles, and Ross’s for other stuff. I’ve bought catering equipment, servers, printers and office furniture from auction. But they sell anything from jewelry and wine to Komatsu mining dump trucks the size of my house.
I’m still salty that my gf stopped me from buying that massive box of rolls of tape from the airport seized items auction. I could have secured so many things!
bye bye~! let this happen to the rest too. i hope the airline industry crashes and has to be nationalized or some shit idk. better than this. anything would be better than the current mess we have.
I think there will be a time in the future where people will look at how frivolously we travelled around the world with a level of disgust.
Why does it have to be in the future? I feel that way right now.
There’s nothing wrong with travel. It’s airplane emissions that’s the problem
Its billionaires emissions that are the problem…
what do you mean? just because there were like 200 private aeroplanes at some billionaire’s wedding, doesn’t mean the billionaires are at fault!
just in case
/s
What’s the alternative though? High speed rail would be nice, but since that won’t happen, you’d just have all those people driving cars instead.
What’s the alternative?
Names existing, tried and tested alternative that has been working well for 200 years
Naw, can’t do that, it’d be hard.
(This is you)
Okay please point out all these high speed rail projects happening around the country. AFAIK there’s only one in SoCal and its been delayed for years and several orders of magnitude over budget. You people act like its just a matter of snapping your fingers and we suddenly have a high speed rail network, walkable cities, and no need for cars or airplanes.
I’m not opposed to any of this but we’re just as likely to get transporter technology to rid ourselves of cars. Don’t get mad at me for bringing you guys back down to earth.
Id love to see a bullet train from LA to Tokyo
I know: Zeppelins.
The alternative is simply not going on a jaunt to Greece. It’s a luxury.
Only the rich have the money for frivolous travel
People complain video games have too many micro transactions, but they learned from the American airline companies.
I can take a 2hr trip in Asia and get a full damn meal.
God damn son, you commie fuck, won’t you think about the shareholders?
Some guy could buy his 3rd yacht if you weren’t so fucking greedy that you need to be “treated like a human being with a modicum if dignity”
I went to rural Thailand back in 2007 to teach English for a month with a group from my university. Our plane died at the gate in Miami and, in order to make all of our connections to get to Thailand we made last minute changes that put us on Thai Air from LAX. Best damn flight I’ve ever been on and it was in basic, seated in the absolute middle of the middle section and I’m someone who’s unable to sleep on a plane unless I have the window. So I was awake for most of those 17.5 hours. Plane was beautiful, crew was beautiful and friendly. There was framed art on the walls and multiple full meals on the flight.
EDIT: Forgot to finish before I posted. The trip back we took Northwestern Airlines and, hoo boy. Meals were served out of a sense of obligation, stacked at last seat of the row to be passed out ourselves. When we hit the part where they wanted people’s seat backs and tray tables up they just went down the row and grabbed end seats with people asleep in them and pushing them up. Such a stark difference.
Yeah, our airlines suck. Every time I take any airline that’s non American based (i.e EU or Asia) the experience is wild. Hell I got free alcohol on the Dutch airlines they didn’t care lol
I suppose there is a lot to get better, like making airlines actually enforcing the “personal item rule”, its one of my biggest annoyances with flying in the US. So many huge bags and people trying to stuff them everywhere. Let people have luggage in the hold again for free.
On the other hand, adjusting for inflation, I have continually paid less to about the same for similar length flights (including luggage fees) since the early 90’s. I miss meals, but the box o’ sandwhich and a free drink hasn’t been horrible. Maybe its sticking with one airline.
Outside the US, I still get served drinks in a glass and a hot cookie or pastry, and often a free alcoholic drink on some of the smaller airlines, so US: you could do better.
Cant wait for all the planes to become mobile spirit Halloweens
Now you can be a proud owner of Spirit.
Did anyone see that guy who snapped his skateboard in half so it would fit in the carry-on, so he could avoid paying the 89 dollar charge? It got viral enough to gain Tony Hawk’s attention
After all these years, gas prices are what finally does them in…
Don’t worry Trump will buy it and bring back ‘Trump Airlines’ as a nationally owned airline that he gets all the profits from while the tax payer funds it.
They spent the last several years trying to keep this from happening but just couldn’t make it happen in the end. I guess you could say, the spirit was willing…
People compare them to Ryanair in Europe but that’s a gross mischaracterisation.
Ryanair is a notorious fuel hedger, locking in prices 12+ months in advance. They also have a craptonne of cash balance that Spirit never built up, so they are completely differently positioned to handle the fuel price shock in 2026.
Unions play a big part as well - in the US, there was a single Union negotiation on behalf of crew but Ryanair didn’t even recognise unions until 2017 and they still have a lot of national unions that they can pick and choose from. While I abhor Ryanair’s anti-union stance it does leave them very well positioned for survival compared to Spirit.
Ryanair have been overthrowing a lot of national carriers that had a LOT of inefficiency in it, whereas Spirit were fighting against large, federal/international carriers with much more heft to them, both to accept price wars and the handle connecting flights (something Europeans generally loathe and Americans accept). It means a lot of the international flights were fed by the airlines’ own routes, rather than Spirit.
Overall, completely different market place. Man, it would be interesting to see Ryanair enter the US.
it would be interesting to see Ryanair enter the US.
Every landing ends with U.S.A. U.S.A.
there is guys, we lost the spirit, the rest of the economy goes next
Immediately?
Did planes stop working mid flight? I mean if they’re Boeings they might’ve…I hate corporations as a baseline.
That being said, Spirit was cheap and acceptable to me. The customer service was the same I experienced in the “nicer” airlines because they only start caring about you when you aren’t the low class tickets. Sometimes it was a little entertaining because it felt like “NYC Subway in the sky” in regards to weirdos taking the flights, but nobody cared or judged, maybe I was one of them. You were there because you had to be, and they got you where you needed to go. They were the only airline I used to send my son back and forth to his mom’s for vacations, and it was always straight-forward and simple.
Also the Black on Yellow color scheme is nice.
If you were willing to play the game, Spirit was an effective way to fly cheap. I have a backpack that’s the maximum size permitted for “personal item”, never carried luggage to check in and brought my own snacks and drinks.
The leg space was atrocious but I’d get their emails to bid on exit row seats, bid the lowest amount ($5-$15) and often win.
I had enough points for a free one-way flight, but alas.
I genuinely appreciated being able to do a round trip for under $100 all in including train tickets. Like you I had my own backpack, snacks, water and wore extra clothes. Going to miss those deals.
one last flight to flavortown…
Pilots bailing out mid flights /s
they prevented this by not having a flight in the air at the time they ceased operations
can you imagine if they take off spirit airlines, and the half-way through the captain announced, “apologies passengers, a takeover has just taken place and we are now landing in bermuda. May god have mercy on us all.”
