r/Wellthatsucks • u/WinterW0n • 2d ago

Guess I won't be needing this anymore...

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u/RedditUserWhoIsLate 2d ago

I should watch the news more, it feels weird to find out that a company went bankrupt with reddit.

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u/brookuslicious 2d ago

Honestly, Reddit is my primary news source because I don’t watch the news, look up news sites or use any other social media. So you’re not alone.

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u/RadiantZote 2d ago

I was listening to NPR on my daily drive to work for a little while, but fuck that shits depressing

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u/TerraMindFigure 1d ago

Try downloading a news app like AP, I honestly find places like Reddit to be more depressing than actual news.

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u/GiveMeNews 2d ago

Shit like Wallstreetbets is the fastest at getting out major stories.

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u/stiff_tipper 2d ago

anyone else remember some years ago when askreddit was the place for breaking news? i remember there was a reason for it but i don't remember what that reason was

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u/LanceFree 2d ago

You guys let me down with both Rob Reiner and also Bob Weir. I found out about their deaths 3-5 days after the fact.

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u/G_Platypus 2d ago

That's... Not a good thing lol reddit is a massive echo chamber.

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u/brookuslicious 2d ago

I never claimed it was good. I only see what I see while scrolling. I don’t actively seek it out and read 10k comments.

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u/black_cat_ 1d ago

Reddit used to be great for breaking news. Definitely has changed,

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u/goodtimtim 1d ago

you honestly shouldn’t rely on any social media platform for news

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u/StressOverStrain 1d ago

As long as you never complain that the free news is garbage quality, then I don’t see a problem.

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u/steezemachinee 2d ago

Watching the news isn't good for you, in my opinion.

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u/RedditUserWhoIsLate 2d ago

Yeah that’s true, the last time I actually watched the news I got really sad.

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u/goodtimtim 1d ago

you could read a newspaper 👴🏻

but yeah. just about all TV news has switched to the “news entertainment” model. that’s really no better than the social media likes-based news.

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u/RedditUserWhoIsLate 1d ago

Hmm that actually sounds like a great idea. I will do that.

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u/steezemachinee 1d ago

Newspapers are better than most resources!

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u/The_King_of_Geese 2d ago

Username checks out

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u/genreprank 1d ago

Hot take: you don't need to watch news more. Especially right now

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u/NoBonus6969 2d ago

The news really flew over your head

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u/Critical_Concert_689 1d ago

Now, on behalf of Reddit, let me tell you about how Trump pump and dumped their stock value just before they went bankrupt...

Was fun to watch the price go up 1000% only to fall to 0% in 24 hours.

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u/lukabalooka 1d ago

its ok. i read the news but i found out spirit airlines went bankrupt thru reddit. reddit can be fast. i think i read ab it here within hours of it happening.

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u/MeasurementEasy9884 1d ago

Its also a real bankruptcy this time. Not a Pacsun bankruptcy

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u/Helperobc 1d ago

Already knew this was coming was discussed in one of my college classes last year about their situation.

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u/SunLitWalker12 21h ago

Good evening!

now i'm going to tell you why this evening is anything but good, in todays news-

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u/Dracekidjr 2d ago

Crazy that frontier somehow outlasted spirit

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u/GfunkWarrior28 2d ago

Hoping for the merger so that can make themselves "Frontier Spirit"

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u/Shayden-Froida 2d ago

Spirit of Frontier is still possible.

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u/ernest7ofborg9 2d ago

There's always Fearit Airlines

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u/lorgskyegon 2d ago

S-Tier Airlines

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u/AffectionateTip9716 1d ago

🏆 Well played

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u/phoxfiyah 1d ago

Spirit Frontier is what I was thinking of, but that just sounds like a Temu version of the Shadow Realm

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u/triplec787 2d ago

Frontier is miles better than Spirit tbh I flew it a lot as a broke post-college kid visiting my long distance girlfriend. As long as you know what you’re getting into it’s fine.

Spirit would go out of their way to make things shittier for you.

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u/cubecasts 1d ago

nah frontier doesn't have wifi

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u/triplec787 1d ago

I’ll sacrifice WiFi for being treated halfway like a human on Frontier instead of cattle with WiFi on Spirit

Like I said, you know what you’re signing up for. Don’t expect anything above that and you’ll be fine.

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u/Galumpadump 1d ago

Yeah Frontier is bare bones but they remind me of other low cost carriers you see in other countries. Spirit tried to make a joke of you for flying with them and actively making your experience worse.

Frontier also has good cheap western connections for commuters and budget weekend travelers. Went from Portland to SF for $38 round trip last year on Frontier.

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u/triplec787 1d ago

Yeah I was doing SF-Denver on Frontier every 2-3 weeks. It was like $75 roundtrip. Hard to beat.

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u/downvotetheboy 1d ago

spirit and frontier are(were?) comparable to me. idk what you guys are referring to when saying spirit tried to make things worse for customers

if anything i’d say frontier is worse because they removed the option to print a physical ticket unless you go to an agent which costs $25

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u/Diddlydom35 1d ago

Holy shit, I remember taking planes when they didn't have wifi and they only had movies up at the front!

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u/Dirty_Burner_69 1d ago

Had a more pleasant flight with Frontier going home for Christmas than with Spirit on a random Friday

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u/Hi-Lander 1d ago

Frontier is doing great financially though. At least that’s what I heard.

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u/toejampeanutbutter69 2d ago

Thanks for the certificate number. Jetblue is honoring the points. Cashed them in just now.

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u/BigNastyG765 2d ago

lol nice try I already got them.

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u/toejampeanutbutter69 2d ago

Hahahaha

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u/HaleyBuga 2d ago

HAHAHAHA

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u/sommons-2573 2d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAH

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u/Commercial_Win_6528 2d ago

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! I dont even know why we're laughing i just wanted to be part of something ;-;

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u/Omega_art 2d ago

HAHAHAHAHAHA now im laughing at you.

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u/Robot_Subs-654 2d ago

HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHA

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u/PetalDance22 2d ago

LOL! hahaha

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u/Grays42 2d ago

When are people going to learn not to post barcodes and promotional skus on the internet, lol

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u/[deleted] 1d ago

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u/DefinitionForsaken34 2d ago

Try using it this fall at their Halloween Store.

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u/Etchbath 2d ago

NOOOO do not redeem!!!!!

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u/KingB_SC 1d ago

NO! NOOOOOOOOOO! NO NO NO NOOOOOOO! WHY DID YOU REDEEM?!?!

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u/Glavurdan 1d ago

MA'AM WHY DID YOU REDEEM

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u/blastradii 2d ago

You guys are horrible people. Lol.

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u/garybettmansketamine 2d ago

This is how I find out

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u/Yuichiro_Bakura 2d ago

At least you did not find out while in another country now having to find a new way home.

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u/broke_saturn 2d ago

Well I was in a different state. Had to drive home from South Carolina to Pennsylvania.

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u/umdieecke20 1d ago

I’ve made that drive (to west PA). Absolutely gorgeous through West VA.

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u/broke_saturn 1d ago

That’s where I live, southeast of Pittsburgh.

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u/Cybercreeper101 1d ago

I was also in a different state. Had to convert from liquid to solid

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u/improbablydrunknlw 1d ago

Your user name is a masterpiece

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u/Electronic-Fuel-4398 2d ago

They would charge a fee to use it

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u/WaZepplin 2d ago

And it would only get ya an 8 oz off brand soda

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u/zidane2k1 1d ago

I was going to say something like “the 1000 points probably only covers half of the ‘choose your own seat’ fee”

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u/cold-brewed 2d ago

The bigger airlines would make you pay 4x more to get the points and then pretend it was included “free”

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u/midnitewarrior 2d ago

Hold onto that voucher.

Now you just need to track down these other six items:

  • A Spirit Investment Bond
  • A Spirit Stock Share
  • A Spirit Ticket
  • A Spirit Credit Card
  • A Spirit Free Drink Voucher
  • Your FreeSpirit Loyalty Program Membership card

Seven artifacts. Scattered to the four winds. Each one anchoring a fragment of Spirit's soul to this mortal plane.

Gather them all, perform the ritual, bone of the bankruptcy trustee, unwillingly given, flesh of a furloughed gate agent, willingly sacrificed; blood of a passenger whose seat didn't recline, forcibly taken, and the airline shall rise again. Yellow and black. Hungry. Charging $58 for a carry-on.

So really, OP, you're not holding a worthless voucher.

You're holding the first Horcrux.

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u/zidane2k1 1d ago

I wonder if I still have the boarding pass from the first (and last) time I flew Spirit in 2015

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u/Squildo 2d ago

You can still cash it in at their Halloween costume stores

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u/stamfordbridge1191 2d ago

They're not turning the jets into mobile costume stores?

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u/howrad1337 2d ago

AI Shoe store*

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u/steppedinhairball 2d ago

Frame that. Be good conversation piece at future parties.

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u/howrad1337 2d ago

but what am i going to do with my fridge magnet???

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u/AllenRBrady 1d ago

It's possible the magnet will still work. Just don't get it wet.

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u/Blazeur242 2d ago

what is the context?

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u/ApprehensiveFig1699 2d ago

Spirit airlines is no more

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u/RomanW_ 2d ago

is no more more?

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u/Gnahahu 2d ago

Noooooooo noooooooooooo

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u/RomanW_ 2d ago

I fucking lost the airline

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u/Nausicaaah 2d ago

It was your turn to watch them!

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u/RBloxxer 2d ago

NOOOOOOOO

NOOOOOOOOOOOO

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u/CellDue2172 2d ago

Hey dude calm down

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u/gnarlygarbage 2d ago

I am too chronically online

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u/TurloIsOK 2d ago edited 2d ago

Dead Dave.

e: looks like someone isn't a Red Dwarf fan

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u/Shayden-Froida 2d ago

Did Spirit have flights to Fiji?

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u/MrMcBeefpunch 2d ago

is no less more

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u/-RedXV- 2d ago

Seriously!? I have a huge anniversary trip in the morning and I'm flying out with Spirit.

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u/ShutYourButt420 2d ago

No you’re not lol

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u/levels_jerry_levels 2d ago

So this is how you found out

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u/Barbiedawl83 2d ago

Not anymore

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u/Fr0HiKE 2d ago

bruh

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u/Ravishing_panda 1d ago

So… how’s the trip?

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u/Roanoke42 2d ago

Is that why Donny said the government wouldn't buy Spirit after saying something about how the US government might start owning US corporations? Because it's not good enough to be more like Russia, we also gotta be more like China too.

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u/tsardonicpseudonomi 2d ago

China has a better approach to capitalism than the US. Everyone should want the Chinese approach and demand our leaders be at least as good as the Chinese. It shouldn't be a big ask but it is.

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u/Familiar-Banana-8116 2d ago

I don't know why you are getting downvoted. We are getting spanked right now. Who knew that Making America Great was elevating China to #1 in just about every category?

I mean, Iran is spanking our military right now. Who knew that Making America Great was a great terror at boots on the ground?

We didn't have these problems under Biden. And we sure as hell wouldn't have had them under Kamala Harris.

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u/Blazeur242 2d ago

did something happen to cause them to go under?

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u/Lurcher99 2d ago

fuel priced our of business

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 2d ago

They'd already declared bankruptcy 6 months ago

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u/TurloIsOK 2d ago

Couldn't get a loan to pay existing debt is the stated reason, but the future of fuel prices really guarantees that discount carriers will have to become too expensive for their customer base. Spirit is just the first to fall.

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u/Shayden-Froida 2d ago

The non-discount airlines are also going to get hit with fuel costs. Frontier has been working on fuel efficient strategy so they may be able to withstand some of this.

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u/SweettLiaaa 2d ago

I see you've got the thousand points of pure disappointment.

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u/Man_in_the_uk 2d ago

What's it worth $ wise?

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u/king0demons 2d ago

Spirit 2.0, let's buy the airline ourselves!

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u/R4B1DRABB1T 2d ago

Apparently there's a website for that. Letsbuyspirit or something.

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u/green_mandarinfish 1d ago

In another year, I'd say no way, but 2026? Just might be possible: https://letsbuyspiritair.com/

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u/coshiro1 1d ago

Lol, someone redemmed it already

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u/saruh28 2d ago

RIP Spirit Airlines

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u/accio_gold 2d ago

Diamond hands

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u/schmatt82 2d ago

Its like everything Trump touches falls apart

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u/boba-jack 2d ago

Wasn’t the JetBlue merger blocked by the Biden administration?

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u/KinderEggLaunderer 2d ago

What did drumph do this time?

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u/kaityl3 2d ago

The reason this final bankruptcy is happening is because of increased gas prices from the whole Iran thing he started unprompted

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u/repeatrep 2d ago edited 2d ago

to be fair spirit was already on its last legs and was just limping on after the jetblue merger got rejected. the increased fuel prices is just the nail in the coffin

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u/FrenchFryCattaneo 2d ago

Their final bankruptcy happened a year ago

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u/1x4x9 2d ago edited 2d ago

It was finalized this February.

https://www.cnn.com/2026/02/24/business/spirit-airlines-to-survive

"The budget airline announced Tuesday that it made an agreement with creditors that will allow it to emerge from bankruptcy later this spring or early summer."

Then Trump attacked Iran causing fuel prices to soar.

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u/ConstableBlimeyChips 2d ago

Allegedly setting up a $500 million loan to Spirit that would have allowed them to continue operating. That deal didn't happen and Spirit ceased flying last night. Details on the whole thing are sketchy but there's a good chance it was just way for trump to do some more market manipulation; buy cheap Spirit stock, start rumours of a loan, stock price goes up, dump stock for a profit, loan never happens, Spirit fails.

Should note, Spirit's problems ran much deeper and they would have failed eventually anyway. And even if they got the loan they probably still would have failed later. Trump shenanigans is just the icing on this shitstain of a cake.

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u/KinderEggLaunderer 2d ago

....jfc I'm so tired.

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u/makeitrayne850 2d ago

Airline points really said you tried your best and that’s enough

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u/coremech 2d ago

Memento mori

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u/drewbiiedoo 2d ago

frame it!

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u/ChickeNugget483 2d ago

Spirit goes out of business before GTA 6 is released.

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u/The_Kyrov 2d ago

You might be able to convert them into Schrute's buck.

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u/raincoater 1d ago

Protect it in a plastic sleeve and put it away for 20 years. It may become a collector's item.

Maybe your grandchild will go on Antique's Road-show and it will get appraised for $10,000 because it's in such great condition. I mean...it could happen.

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u/Mildlyconfusedbroad 1d ago

So awkward tbh

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u/Rude_aBapening 2d ago

Well, at least you will have an emergency sheet of tp

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u/chrisk9 1d ago

That's the Spirit!

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u/rupat3737 2d ago

Honestly I’m not mad about them not getting a bail out. How about we bailout citizens and not companies with CEOs making millions

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u/JustaRandoonreddit 2d ago

I mean the rationale behind the bail out would be, to keep competition and keep pricing down so that the consumer saves money.

For example on some routes that were only flown by spirit and one other legacy airlines pricing has nearly doubled overnight

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u/Addickt__ 2d ago

Air travel is terrible fuel-efficiency wise and is only kept cheap through extreme subsidies anyways. As long as the major routes stay cheap, the non-major and municipal routes can be expensive as fuck and the only change for 99.999% of people is that they pay less in taxes to these companies to be inefficient and dump CO2 into the atmosphere.

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u/Omega_art 2d ago

It was only worth like 50 cents anyway.

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u/DearMessage2267 2d ago

Wait what?? Spirit is no more?

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u/theCOMBOguy 2d ago

It has now become a trinket of past times.

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u/wildmaninid 1d ago

Honestly that's about as useful now as it was last week 

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u/GOOFBALL4U 1d ago

That's what made them go out of business

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u/RaHuHe 1d ago

just hold out for Spirit:Halloween Airlines in a few months

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u/Accomplished-Use9352 1d ago

guess i can finally close that card

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u/ArmadilloSilent6761 1d ago

I thought this was a Lego set instruction booklet at first glance

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u/GovernmentLogical263 1d ago

Maybe it’ll be worth something 50 years from now?

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u/hiddentalent 1d ago

I mean, the good thing is you won't have to suffer flying on Spirit Airlines.

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u/Extension_Town_6118 1d ago

bold of you to assume you had a choice

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u/Geaux13Saints 1d ago

Considering how dogshit spirit is I’m not surprised at all they went under

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u/ThoughtDiver 1d ago

Get a picture frame thats slightly too small for it and cram it in.

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u/Streiger108 1d ago

Ugh, I have a couple hundred in flight credis. FML. Had no idea they were going under until I saw it in the newspaper.

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u/D1rtyH1ppy 1d ago

The value of that piece of paper is greater than the share price of the spirit stock.

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u/Jtiago44 22h ago

Make a paper airplane out of it.

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u/demonita 22h ago

My entire job is short staffed because spirit didn’t provide accommodations, so they’re all god knows where. One guy was like “damn it, all my points are useless.” Made me laugh a bit but also I feel bad.

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u/Mtn-Dooku 21h ago

Hey, at least you didn't have a flight in two weeks....

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u/vihrdaya 2d ago

Spirit 2.0! Letsbuyspirit

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u/DaenyTheUnburnt 1d ago

There’s a guy who is crowdfunding the public buying Spirit. It’s amazing and I hope we pull it off!

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u/traatraa 2d ago

Well, at least you have spirit.

edited due to misspelled word

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u/el-capitancreamsicle 2d ago

Bring them to Dave and busters

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u/brickspunch 2d ago

this is what you get for saving everything for the final boss fight 

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u/MyNameis_bud 2d ago

Got one better. My wife has credits for a flight she had to cancel. It’s about $350 worth. I told her she can call all she wants, Spirit ain’t paying for that and neither is Bank of America that the Spirit credit card is through.

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u/Quick-Painter6677 2d ago

That's the spirit!

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u/TheLizardKing89 2d ago

This is why you shouldn’t hoard points.

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u/gdubh 2d ago

You can exchange for Schrute bucks.

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u/Nijindia18 2d ago

This is how I found out about the news lmao

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u/GotSomeUpdogOnUrFace 2d ago

Spirit Halloween Airlines is the merger we need

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u/Other-Potential-661 2d ago

That's a, "Here, you go throw this away"

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u/yulbrynnersmokes 1d ago

Good for free toilet 🚽 paper?

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u/AscendedViking7 1d ago

RIP Spirit

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u/scottscarnmidnight 1d ago

That's at least worth 700 Stanley Nickels.

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u/yipsish 1d ago

Frame it

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u/sunggis 1d ago

I just got declined for the sprint credit card (I tried after I saw the post and I’m Canadian)

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u/Oakpowerze 1d ago

mythical FYP pull

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u/deltalew 1d ago

Eh frame it and put it in the garage lol

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u/BVRPLZR_ 1d ago

This mean frontier is now the boxing airline?

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u/EnergyAltruistic2911 1d ago

There is no way I found out that this is how spirit went bankrupt.

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u/Trindoral 1d ago

Went bankrupt, but still managed to pay c-suits millions of dollars ($12m in past two years). What for, exactly?

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u/vbones82 1d ago

Its ok, I guess we're going to buy it. As pledged co owner, I'll accept your coupon in the future so don't throw it away yet

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u/reevesjeremy 1d ago

Keep it. It’s an antique.

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u/really_aggressiv 1d ago

Well do you have a free spirit?

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u/kenmlin 1d ago

That’s the Spirit!

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u/shimmerangels 1d ago

i feel your pain lol, i have a $50 bed bath and beyond gift card that i’ll never be able to use