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Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights

2026-04-29 00:00:00 +0000 UTC ·25m 35s ·by NPR
Spirit Airlines and the future of cheap flights
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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 carrier