Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights

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Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights

Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights

Apr 29, 202625m
0:0025:35

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It’s way more than fuel costs that pushed Spirit Airlines to the brink of liquidation and led President Trump to muse about “buying” them. Many low cost airlines are struggling due to a canny and calculated set of strategies from bigger airlines that we can think of as ‘revenge of the legacy carriers.’ Today on the show, we go back in time to when Spirit was riding high and pressuring the whole industry to cut costs. We talk with then-CEO Ben Baldanza about his radical vision for cheap air trave

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