Free Enterprise Could Have Resurrected Spirit Airlines |
Spirit Airlines gave up the ghost this week.
President Trump wanted to provide a lifeline to the company so that it could survive long enough for a necessary restructuring. JetBlue offered to enter into a merger with the company to resurrect the failed airline. But U.S. Senator Elizabeth Warren (D-MA) persisted in the spirit of “government knows best”, and she blocked the merger.
So, Spirit Airlines has released its spirit, so to speak, crucified by bad management, poor professionalism, customer rejection, and just plain bad timing. None of us can ignore that fuel costs have increased due to the war in Iran. Then again, no one can lay the demise of this airline on Trump and his welcome military efforts to disarm the radical Iranian regime and its nuclear ambitions.
Spirit Airlines was doomed to fail due to years of failure. Their closure occurs not a moment too soon, in my view.
The bad service, the unprofessional staff, and the limited options available to customers all militantly undermined the airline’s chances of survival. And the examples of the evil spirit that possessed this business cannot be overstated. Who can forget the obscene shouting match between two Spirit employees, laced with vulgarity, all caught on camera by one of the customers waiting for service? The exchange went viral, and Spirit Airlines should have issued an immediate press release, apology, and two termination letters. Did anything happen?
Check out this mosh-pit riot that broke out outside of a Spirit Airlines departure gate. This was not a one-off outbreak, by the way. In this video, in which another fight broke out at a Spirit Airlines counter, the passengers lost their cool over the cancellation of a flight.
And was it just one flight that got cancelled? Spirit Airlines had a........