May 4, 2026 ⢠25 mins
On May 2, 2026, the airline started an "orderly wind-down" of all its operations.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Maybe one of the biggest stories at all from over
the weekend was Spirit Airlines shutting down.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I first of all, I can't believe was anybody else shocked.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
To hear Spirit's been around thirty four years?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I was not as.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The Yellow Planes corral, but as an airline. Correct, they've
been around for thirty four years. That was shocking to me.
Shocking to me. And didn't they say this is the
first US airline to shut down in over twenty five years?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What was the last one?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I can't Every time I asked Jeeves for a list
of the shutdown airlines, I get Spirit like that, because
it was the story was so big that nothing else
came up other than they go, that's been over twenty
five years since we had an airline shut down?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
What was the last one to shut down? I had
no idea what it was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Obviously this had to be of a certain size operation.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh yeah, No, I'm not talking about you know, like
uh Independence, there wasn't that here. Yeah, like there was that,
and then like like barely Bush Air or something like that. Yeah,
it's a small regional but yeah, like I'm talking about
like an airline, an airline, was it and not a merger.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
No, not a merger. That's maybe That's what I was thinking, like,
was it was Northwest part of a merger?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Northwest Airlines? Yeah, didn't they turn into didn't they turn into?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Did they get it absorbed by Delta or No?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I was gonna say Alaska?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh was it Midway Airlines?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Never even heard of it? What is Midway? What was
TWA that was.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Absorbed by American in two thousand and one?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Was it really t WA? Was around the two thousand
and one? And then what was pan am M?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Or wait?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Was PanAm not US based?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't know where they're headquartered?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And were US Airways?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That merged with American.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
American right Continental emerged with somebody united?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Thank you, Diane. Diane knows her mergers?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No I Tandle acquisitions, Tandal? How about Dan also tandles
the speaker? What was the last was it Midway? Was
Midway a major airline? I've never I mean, I've heard
of Midway Air, but I've never I don't I definitely
never flew Midway Air.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I can't even imagine what the planes.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Look like or the logo.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You go, oh, yeah, that's Familiar ran from ninety three
to two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Oh, so maybe that was.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It looks like post nine to eleven they were unable
to recover.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well that's so that that turns into so there was
a bunch of different angles that came out of Spirit Air, right,
So I don't know, I don't know if anybody had
tickets on Spirit Air.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
A lot of people got stranded.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Those people are screwed, well, I mean they are.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
They are offering refunds to who.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Spirit's not giving anybody money something Spirits said they finished.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Actually they said everyone should have been refunded.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So people who bought tickets, if they're flying in a
month or two months, they got their money back.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They did everybody according to what the spirit I mean Spirit,
seventeen thousand people are out of a job. They don't
have many people answering folks anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I don't think any But if you had, if you
booked a flight, Spirit did huge business into Vegas. Spirit
did huge business into Vegas. So if somebody was Spirit
flew out of Bwi. We flew Spirit out of Bwi.
And over the weekend I saw them taking down all
the signs of BWY.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And remember I thought that for real, the nice people
that we've got to interact with.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And one of the best Spirit Airlines fights.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Was at BWI, right at the gate.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So if somebody had a flight booked on Spirit, Christen,
will you do me a favor? Will you see if
you can find me somebody anybody who either a got
dicked over the weekend by having to fly on Spirit
when everything kind of went up, or has a ticket
for the future on Spirit Air eight six six to
(04:17):
Elliott eight six six two three five five four six eight.
Now getting to Tyler's thing, I feel bad for all
the employees. Yeah, that's seventeen thousand of them out of
work like that.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Aaron Wright's have a friend who has been a pilot
with Spirit for over ten years said he's shell shock.
The zero heads up.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So what do they do?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Like if you're a Spirit Airlines pilot, like, are other
airlines hiring?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I don't know what the current state is of pilot
job opportunity.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, I don't neither. I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But even if you even if you were a very
experienced Spirit Airlines pilot, if you left and went to Southwest,
well your bottom of the barrel. You're not starting anywhere
near your seniority.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, no, it certainly the passengers who are stranded. I
think we're getting most of the attention, but you have
like you just mentioned thousands of people out of work.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yesh, flight attendants, pilots, what about ground like then there
are people who work at the airports, like ticket count
like that at the counters.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, like when yeah, you work for that airline.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's not like you show up and they go, oh,
put on a Spirit vest and go to that ticket counter.
You work for Spirit. So all of those people are
out of work. And then what about like like like
baggage handlers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Are they airport employees.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The ones that you see on the tarmac, but like
behind like behind the behind the counter, are those Spirit
people or are those just airport people?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Where was the one pilot who was supposed to be making.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
His it was his last flight, his.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Retirement flight into BWI, and they canceled him.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, but then didn't Southwest step in.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
His son's a pilot for Southwest.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, so he got his dad to hitch a ride
on the flight, and when it landed at BWI, they celebrated.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
For him, like they gave him the water cantons in
the champagne.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, oh that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Now he didn't get to fly the plane, but he
got to kind of go back on the plane.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So he still got his retirement flight.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I said, that's probably more than Spirit was going to
do for him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Spirit. He didn't have a ride back. He's lucky his
son is a pilot. He hitched a ride with his son.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because the last official flight wasn't it Detroit to DFW
Atlanta a little after one am?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and then they ceased operations at three three.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And that was it and they were like, sorry, you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
BWI took down all their signage pretty quickly, Richmond. They
were broadcasting the news from there this morning from the airport,
all of their yellow still up posters and SIUs it's
all still up, is it really? BWI?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Bwi? They got it down quick.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So is Richmond just wanting passengers to jump up and
pull stuff down?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The collapse marks the end of a thirty four year
history for the airline, which was a dominant low low
cost carrier. But didn't they sing? Now they're worried about
Frontier and.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Jet Blue going the same way.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, now, I'll tell you what I got nervous. I
had to book a flight over the weekend, which, by
the way, ain't cheap to fly right now. But I
had to book a flight, and I was going to
fly on a Legion, but I got.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Scared they're going to go under and Jebelo.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, I know, but it's not like Allegiance, like one
of the biggies. Allegiant is Spirit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But isn't Jet Blues for BWI the one that's stepping in.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, they moved in to try to pick up some
of the loose crumbs. But that's not the only airport. Well,
they're not there yet. Isn't this going to be a
whole process? Yeah, no, they want to, they want but
they want to move in and pick up the loose crumbs.
Like if Spirit only flew between BWI and Vegas.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
They'd be a cash good to go.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, but it's everywhere. It's everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There were people who were just showing up at the
airport and they were like tough, titty.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Sorry insistence with getting a rescue ride.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I think they no. But then if you had to
book a flight on United American Midway, any of them,
it's thousands of dollars or who.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Is offering the discounted flights to try to help the
people out?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Though?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Was it? Was it United?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
United? Was right?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, so instead of having to take a twelve hundred
dollars flight, you were getting it for about nine hundred.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And fifty were they were trying to I kept hearing
two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Two hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, no way, I see Frontier did something with one
the one ninety nine Go Wild. We've talked about that.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, Oh, their passes right, So if if you were
if you were stranded, you had to.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Also pay for possible like accommodation. Yes, it's not just
the flight.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
No, no, you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Had to go. You had to get a hotel or
an airbnb or sleep at the hotel. The hotel excuse me.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
The air report?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Am I going to line one?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Line two? Sorry? Kristen hi Elliot the morning.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Hey, this is Tina and Richmond.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Hey Tina, how are you Hey?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Good?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Good?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I have tickets on air Spirit Airlines in June for Orlando,
and I got an email from them, I guess yesterday
that said that they were going to refund the money.
I was shocked that they'd been around for thirty four years, though.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, I think most people were.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I think they go like, well, I mean this garbage
air line has been around for ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But yeah, they've been around that long. So when do
you get your refund?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
They didn't. I didn't give a date or anything. They
just sam all money would be refunded.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh see, I thought they already started to implement those.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Who's going to do with they fired Alice?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, or whoever, I'll be in charge of that.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I'm waiting to see.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Right, Yeah, so the but so where can I do
you mind if I asked where were you?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Where were you going.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Orlando?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh? You said that? I'm sorry? So have you have
you tried to book another flight?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Not yet? I was going to do that today. And
so yeah, yeah, I heard that some airlines were supposed
to be trying to help out the passengers from Spirit,
but I don't even know which ones are doing that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Try United, try Frontier, try try any of them.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But you have to prove that you were supposed to
be on Spirit to get that reduced fair.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Send them the picture holding the Spirit bag. They were
very nice back then. No, And I do, like, I
feel horrible for all of the all of the people
that work there. Yeah, they're all out of work. But
I also I also feel bad for anybody that's like
I would bet. I think it is a safe bet.
And ma'am, I'm not saying this to trigger you. Everybody
(11:34):
who's waiting on a refund, I'd be willing to bet
you are not going to get a refund at all.
They have no money, they are bankrupt, they went out
of business.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, the Spirit is already saying that most.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
People were refunded already.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
She didn't get hers, not yet, and hope. You know
the thing is, there's no one to call for it.
You know, it's not like you can call woman say
where's my money?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah? No, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Hey, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Thank you. I bet most people have not gotten a refund.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now, did you only get the refund this past day
or two? If you booked through Spirit directly?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
So, if you did an Expedia or something, then.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Is there going to be a delay in getting that
money back?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Oh, there is going to be a delay. That delay
is called never where am I going?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You don't believe them when they're I don't believe people
are going to get their money that they are saying
they already did it most to four people.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I'm got most. I promise you. I promise you. People
are not getting refunds. Hi, Jelly in the morning.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Hi, my name is Donna. I travel to Maryland from
Orlando every month, and I fly Spirit because of the
big front seat. And yeah, so I'm in Maryland right now,
and I was supposed to fly back on Mother's Day
and got the lovely alert stating that so sorry, you
have no flight.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
But you've got your refund already.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Oh no, no, no, no no. And I have another
flight booked in June for Vegas.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And that one they refunded.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Nope, no, I.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Haven't gotten a single refund. No, you can't even get anywhere.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I have a question.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
I'm like a Spirit gold.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh I didn't even know they made a gold level.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So the only reason that I fly Spirit is so
I can sit in the big front seat. I refuse
to go in the back with the peasants, but I
can't afford first class, So that's how I roll.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Right, Okay, I'll take that. Now, let me ask you this,
Let me ask you this. Did you book through Spirit
or do you book through Expedia?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I booked directly through Spirit.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
There you go, and there's two feet You can't even
get anywhere on the app. You literally like you can't
see your pass, flights, your future flates, your receipts, anything.
It's literally just a pop up that says, so sorry,
So what do you.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
What are you going to do about getting back down
to Wait?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So you you live in Orlando but come up here
for work or vice versa.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, it's cracked. I live in Orlando, I got and
I fly up here for work every single month.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So how are you?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
How are you going to get home?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I had to rebook a flight on Southwest, I know,
and that cost me more than my round trip flight
on Spirit.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I was just going to ask, how much did it
cost you for your your flight, your one way flight
on south.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
My one way flight five eighty five?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, I'm telling you it's one thousand dollars to fly
anywhere right now? Yep?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Oh my tickets to Vegas were like two grand apiece, right,
but that on Spirit?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah? In Spirit? Oh my god, I'm not even you
know Spirit?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, ma'am, you're the Spirit snob.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
You shouldn't be saying it like I really am the
spirit snob. I'm not even I even like looked different
here and I was like, no, no, no, nob but
can't afford delta verse class right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well that's okay. Hey are you still what are you
going to do about? Like everything else in Vegas is booked?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I know, so yeah, it's going to be a fun time.
I don't know, well, not driving the No.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
If you if you get if you get stuck here
for the next month, you'll.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh I will all right on.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Very good. Thank you, ma'am, Thank you. There you go.
I'm telling you, nobody's getting refunds.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well this person did. My daughter had a flat on
Spirit from Fort Lauderdale to b tow I May fourteenth,
and we just rebooked her flight last night on a
different airline. I just checked my bank account and the
forty seven dollars is in there.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Forty seven How much did it cost on real? Less
than twenty round trip per ticket?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, I think it was.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Wasn't it twenty four?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, it was a little over twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh, it was less than twenty five, but it was.
It was twenty four dollars round trip.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah. Yeah, we flew for under one hundred dollars four
of us to Orlando.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yes, we did unbelievable and it worked out problems.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Not only did it work out, we got a gift, Yeah,
we got it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We got a bag that's a collector's item.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Now, people were trying to on Instagram, I notice, identify
the contents of your bag, and they definitely made out
the chapstick.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Do you remember we got a notebook?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Weren't there band aids in case you got beat up?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
No elliot the oh I'm sorry, I don't want it,
or like an eyemasks.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There was an eye mask okay, oh no, no no,
it was a mouth mask. It was a COVID mask.
I was trying to put it over my eyes. There
was didn't we get a pencil in a pad?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
We got it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Definitely got a little black spirit notebook.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Right, so you come right down so you could write
down help me on the on there?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Are you really kicking them when they're down?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They're out of business, Tyler. They fired seventeen thousand people. Yeah,
I don't like that, and they're not refunding everybody, although
that one person got forty seven dollars. Line four. Did
we also get hands sand? It's not a big one,
a small one. Hi, jelliot in the morning and cigarettes. Hello, Hi, Hi,
(17:08):
who's ass?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
This is Jackie?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Hi. I am doing well, Jackie? What can I do
for you?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So?
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I purchased my tickets through a firm for Spirit on
me for me fifth to fly out. I didn't even
get an email that this was happening. I got a
text from my sister with an Instagram post from BWI
that no one should report to the airport because Spirit
isn't there. So but I did get my credit back
through a firm, so I have the money in the
(17:35):
bank now. But I paid. I rebooked because I have
to fly out for this universal trip eighteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
I paid for the three of us.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh boy, wait a minute, wait what by the way,
who's the firm that you book through?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Firm is kind of like the afterpay thing, like where
you make payments monthly or every.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Oh I got you. It's like like layaway.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, you get your tickets that and then. But
I already got my refunds already. But I did have
to pay out of pocket for my United's life. So
it came out to a thousand, eight hundred to fly
out to think tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And what was your what was and please listen while
you're in Orlando? What was the what was the cost
of your Spirit flights?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Four hundred and nineteen dollars?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
God damn it? Yeah, wow, it's a ton more expensive. Yeah,
all right, very good, thank you, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So twenty fourteen is when they painted all of their
jets yellow.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
What did they look like before that? Did it just
look like like blood and vomit?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Elliott?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
What Tyler fights took place on Spirit?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They were the logo was actually blue?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Was it really?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah? And it was an all white basically all white pantscheme?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And was it hand written Spirit in blue or did
they have like actual like artwork?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
What do you mean handwritten?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They just sent some guys out there and just say, right,
Spirit on there. It's a trash airline. Oh there it is?
Oh you know what, that was pretty good looking.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Look at here we go. This is from thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Wow, that may be the plane we flew on.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
A Spirit it was it was an airline and then
became Spirit. So technically it goes back even first.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Charter One rebranded to Spirit in ninety two.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I've never even heard of Charter eighty three.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
To nineteen ninety two Charter one. Yes, and now they're
talking forty three years ago. And what is I'm being
told about? An effort for fans of Spirit. They're trying
to buy the airline. Why, oh, like a gofundmehoul, Why
would you buy Spirit?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Hey, it's failing? Who wants in?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
No? No, no, no, it's not failing. It's failed.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's out of business, and you're going to buy Do
you realize they went out of business because they don't
make enough money to keep going. And I know that
they're talking about the fuel fuel and the fuel prices
and what I understand all of that. So you're gonna
buy it and sit on it until it goes down?
You gotta what who's flying the plane? All those people
are fired? It looks like, so now you're gonna go
(20:13):
hire pilots.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I can't because of the internet issues, I can't load
this website. But it is a crowdfunded effort that would
include pilots.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That would be like them saying, hey, listen, do you
hear all the clicking and popping?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Elliott, do you want to buy our phone system? No?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
No, The People's Carrier movement to restart reaches twenty two
million dollars, twenty three million. It just keeps going up.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
They've raised twenty three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
How expensive is it to run an airline more than that,
especially when you're selling tickets for twenty dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What does it say here? How do I get involved?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Or is there?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Has their website crashed? Is that the problem? It's actually
not what is on our end also though, but is
there that much interest?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Let's buy Spirit dot com? Oh no, here we go.
The website is now loading. How much are they up to?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Hold on one second, sir?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
The response did crash the site that is written here
they are at Oh so these are people are pledging money.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh I've done that.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Elliott pledges money.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I used to do that during the telethon, so i'd
hear my name on the radios.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Total pledged is eighty eight million dollars.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh yeah, total received zero negative?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
This me?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yes, sir, Hey Elliott, Hey, welcome back, Diane, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
I just wanted to say that the Spirit Airline thing. Dude,
I got so screwed over what happened. I planned for
So I planned for a flight in September to go
visit my kids and all that stuff in Virginia. I'm
living in Florida currently, and they completely canceled the order.
So I was like, Okay, you know, I'll go ahead
(22:07):
and get reimbursed. And that did not happen. I did
not have any reimbursement nothing.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
And so what are you doing about coming to visit
your kids?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I mean, I'm just going to pay out a pocket.
I'm just gonna buy another flight. I guess you are.
I would assume that I'm going United or I mean,
I really don't want to do Jet Blue because that's
too expensive, but the United air flight seems like it's
the best option. But it was still like two more
(22:43):
to book the United flight, so like you have to
kind of correlate all that together.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
So yeah, yeah, that sucks. It's a huge inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And again I do feel I do feel horrible for
for everybody who worked for Spirit.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I feel horrible for.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Pilot and baggage handlers and ground crew and flight.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Attendants and all of that.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's horrible. I feel bad for everybody, but yeah, that
sucks and everybody's inconvenience. But again, I do want to
stress you have not received your refund.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
No, I have not got my refund. I have not
reimbursed at all. Yeah. Nothing.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
That's why I'm encouraging people.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If you don't get your refund and you're flying, especially
out of Richmond, take something, take a sign.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So who who told Reuters most customers who booked with
credit or debit cards are refunded by Saturday evening.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh Jim w Spirit.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh than that most people are I'm telling you, and
you will not get a rid Who's going to give
it to you?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
They turned off the lights.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
If they were reminded to.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The they'll burn out.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm trying to see who the spokesperson was.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But we have to remember this for the next time,
because they did say, don't be surprised.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
If you get nothing. No, no, no, another airline goes
out of business.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah. Who are the ones, I said, Oh, Frontier and
Jet Blue? Jet Blue, they said, her on the are
hanging by a thread. Well, Tyler, you told us last
week there was only twenty five days of fuel left.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well that was the oil that was a jel Opnik
article but explained how that's not really gonna happen, meant
to induce panic.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I have to get gas today.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I went to get gas yesterday, but I was like,
maybe the prices will go down tomorrow, and they went up.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah. The one the shell near me is five nineteen.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Are you serious on this? God?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
What regular unleaded?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What's on next door? That one's always expensive?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, that one's probably like twenty three twenty four dollars.
That one's always it's cheaper to fly spirit than it
is to go there. The one next door is horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
For those who have not been refunded. The process probably
did start, but it may take time to show up
in our guests account.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Right, the process started it, but there's nobody at the
office to fulfill it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That is the thing you are hearing that you can't like,
there's no Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Well it's like the woman said, we're trying to trying
to get through on the air.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I'm sorry, Yeah, there's there is no app now there's.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Nobody running it.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
God, that's crazy.
Maybe one of the biggest stories at all from over
the weekend was Spirit Airlines shutting down.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
For sure.
Speaker 3 (00:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (00:08):
I first of all, I can't believe was anybody else shocked.
Speaker 4 (00:11):
To hear Spirit's been around thirty four years?
Speaker 2 (00:13):
I was not as.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
The Yellow Planes corral, but as an airline. Correct, they've
been around for thirty four years. That was shocking to me.
Shocking to me. And didn't they say this is the
first US airline to shut down in over twenty five years?
Speaker 3 (00:33):
What was the last one?
Speaker 1 (00:35):
I can't Every time I asked Jeeves for a list
of the shutdown airlines, I get Spirit like that, because
it was the story was so big that nothing else
came up other than they go, that's been over twenty
five years since we had an airline shut down?
Speaker 4 (00:53):
What was the last one to shut down? I had
no idea what it was.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Obviously this had to be of a certain size operation.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
Oh yeah, No, I'm not talking about you know, like
uh Independence, there wasn't that here. Yeah, like there was that,
and then like like barely Bush Air or something like that. Yeah,
it's a small regional but yeah, like I'm talking about
like an airline, an airline, was it and not a merger.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
No, not a merger. That's maybe That's what I was thinking, like,
was it was Northwest part of a merger?
Speaker 1 (01:22):
Northwest Airlines? Yeah, didn't they turn into didn't they turn into?
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Did they get it absorbed by Delta or No?
Speaker 4 (01:31):
I was gonna say Alaska?
Speaker 2 (01:33):
Oh was it Midway Airlines?
Speaker 4 (01:38):
Never even heard of it? What is Midway? What was
TWA that was.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Absorbed by American in two thousand and one?
Speaker 1 (01:47):
Was it really t WA? Was around the two thousand
and one? And then what was pan am M?
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I don't know?
Speaker 5 (01:55):
Or wait?
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Was PanAm not US based?
Speaker 2 (02:00):
I don't know where they're headquartered?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
And were US Airways?
Speaker 1 (02:04):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:04):
That merged with American.
Speaker 1 (02:05):
American right Continental emerged with somebody united?
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Thank you, Diane. Diane knows her mergers?
Speaker 1 (02:13):
No I Tandle acquisitions, Tandal? How about Dan also tandles
the speaker? What was the last was it Midway? Was
Midway a major airline? I've never I mean, I've heard
of Midway Air, but I've never I don't I definitely
never flew Midway Air.
Speaker 4 (02:34):
I can't even imagine what the planes.
Speaker 3 (02:36):
Look like or the logo.
Speaker 2 (02:38):
You go, oh, yeah, that's Familiar ran from ninety three
to two thousand and three.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Oh, so maybe that was.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
It looks like post nine to eleven they were unable
to recover.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
Well that's so that that turns into so there was
a bunch of different angles that came out of Spirit Air, right,
So I don't know, I don't know if anybody had
tickets on Spirit Air.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
A lot of people got stranded.
Speaker 4 (03:03):
Those people are screwed, well, I mean they are.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
They are offering refunds to who.
Speaker 1 (03:10):
Spirit's not giving anybody money something Spirits said they finished.
Speaker 2 (03:14):
Actually they said everyone should have been refunded.
Speaker 1 (03:16):
So people who bought tickets, if they're flying in a
month or two months, they got their money back.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
They did everybody according to what the spirit I mean Spirit,
seventeen thousand people are out of a job. They don't
have many people answering folks anymore.
Speaker 1 (03:29):
I don't think any But if you had, if you
booked a flight, Spirit did huge business into Vegas. Spirit
did huge business into Vegas. So if somebody was Spirit
flew out of Bwi. We flew Spirit out of Bwi.
And over the weekend I saw them taking down all
the signs of BWY.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And remember I thought that for real, the nice people
that we've got to interact with.
Speaker 1 (03:49):
And one of the best Spirit Airlines fights.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Was at BWI, right at the gate.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
So if somebody had a flight booked on Spirit, Christen,
will you do me a favor? Will you see if
you can find me somebody anybody who either a got
dicked over the weekend by having to fly on Spirit
when everything kind of went up, or has a ticket
for the future on Spirit Air eight six six to
(04:17):
Elliott eight six six two three five five four six eight.
Now getting to Tyler's thing, I feel bad for all
the employees. Yeah, that's seventeen thousand of them out of
work like that.
Speaker 2 (04:30):
Aaron Wright's have a friend who has been a pilot
with Spirit for over ten years said he's shell shock.
The zero heads up.
Speaker 4 (04:36):
So what do they do?
Speaker 1 (04:37):
Like if you're a Spirit Airlines pilot, like, are other
airlines hiring?
Speaker 2 (04:46):
I don't know what the current state is of pilot
job opportunity.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Yeah, I don't neither. I have no idea.
Speaker 1 (04:54):
But even if you even if you were a very
experienced Spirit Airlines pilot, if you left and went to Southwest,
well your bottom of the barrel. You're not starting anywhere
near your seniority.
Speaker 2 (05:11):
Yeah, no, it certainly the passengers who are stranded. I
think we're getting most of the attention, but you have
like you just mentioned thousands of people out of work.
Speaker 1 (05:21):
Yesh, flight attendants, pilots, what about ground like then there
are people who work at the airports, like ticket count
like that at the counters.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yeah, like when yeah, you work for that airline.
Speaker 1 (05:34):
It's not like you show up and they go, oh,
put on a Spirit vest and go to that ticket counter.
You work for Spirit. So all of those people are
out of work. And then what about like like like
baggage handlers and stuff.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Are they airport employees.
Speaker 1 (05:49):
The ones that you see on the tarmac, but like
behind like behind the behind the counter, are those Spirit
people or are those just airport people?
Speaker 4 (05:58):
I don't know, I'm not sure.
Speaker 1 (06:02):
Where was the one pilot who was supposed to be making.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
His it was his last flight, his.
Speaker 1 (06:07):
Retirement flight into BWI, and they canceled him.
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Yeah, but then didn't Southwest step in.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
His son's a pilot for Southwest.
Speaker 1 (06:17):
Yeah, so he got his dad to hitch a ride
on the flight, and when it landed at BWI, they celebrated.
Speaker 4 (06:24):
For him, like they gave him the water cantons in
the champagne.
Speaker 2 (06:27):
Yeah, oh that's so cool.
Speaker 1 (06:29):
Now he didn't get to fly the plane, but he
got to kind of go back on the plane.
Speaker 4 (06:34):
So he still got his retirement flight.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:36):
I said, that's probably more than Spirit was going to
do for him.
Speaker 1 (06:39):
Spirit. He didn't have a ride back. He's lucky his
son is a pilot. He hitched a ride with his son.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Because the last official flight wasn't it Detroit to DFW
Atlanta a little after one am?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
Correct?
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Yeah, and then they ceased operations at three three.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
And that was it and they were like, sorry, you're right.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
BWI took down all their signage pretty quickly, Richmond. They
were broadcasting the news from there this morning from the airport,
all of their yellow still up posters and SIUs it's
all still up, is it really? BWI?
Speaker 5 (07:12):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (07:13):
Bwi? They got it down quick.
Speaker 1 (07:16):
So is Richmond just wanting passengers to jump up and
pull stuff down?
Speaker 2 (07:20):
I don't think so.
Speaker 1 (07:23):
The collapse marks the end of a thirty four year
history for the airline, which was a dominant low low
cost carrier. But didn't they sing? Now they're worried about
Frontier and.
Speaker 3 (07:33):
Jet Blue going the same way.
Speaker 1 (07:35):
Yes, now, I'll tell you what I got nervous. I
had to book a flight over the weekend, which, by
the way, ain't cheap to fly right now. But I
had to book a flight, and I was going to
fly on a Legion, but I got.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Scared they're going to go under and Jebelo.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
Yeah, I know, but it's not like Allegiance, like one
of the biggies. Allegiant is Spirit.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
But isn't Jet Blues for BWI the one that's stepping in.
Speaker 1 (08:04):
Yeah, they moved in to try to pick up some
of the loose crumbs. But that's not the only airport. Well,
they're not there yet. Isn't this going to be a
whole process? Yeah, no, they want to, they want but
they want to move in and pick up the loose crumbs.
Like if Spirit only flew between BWI and Vegas.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
They'd be a cash good to go.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Yeah, but it's everywhere. It's everywhere else.
Speaker 1 (08:28):
There were people who were just showing up at the
airport and they were like tough, titty.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
Sorry insistence with getting a rescue ride.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
I think they no. But then if you had to
book a flight on United American Midway, any of them,
it's thousands of dollars or who.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
Is offering the discounted flights to try to help the
people out?
Speaker 5 (08:51):
Though?
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Was it? Was it United?
Speaker 4 (08:53):
United? Was right?
Speaker 1 (08:54):
Yeah, so instead of having to take a twelve hundred
dollars flight, you were getting it for about nine hundred.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
And fifty were they were trying to I kept hearing
two hundred dollars.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Two hundred bucks?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Yeah, no way, I see Frontier did something with one
the one ninety nine Go Wild. We've talked about that.
Speaker 1 (09:12):
Yeah, Oh, their passes right, So if if you were
if you were stranded, you had to.
Speaker 2 (09:26):
Also pay for possible like accommodation. Yes, it's not just
the flight.
Speaker 4 (09:31):
No, no, you.
Speaker 1 (09:33):
Had to go. You had to get a hotel or
an airbnb or sleep at the hotel. The hotel excuse me.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
The air report?
Speaker 4 (09:43):
Am I going to line one?
Speaker 3 (09:44):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (09:45):
Line two? Sorry? Kristen hi Elliot the morning.
Speaker 5 (09:49):
Hey, this is Tina and Richmond.
Speaker 4 (09:51):
Hey Tina, how are you Hey?
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Good?
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Good?
Speaker 1 (09:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 5 (09:54):
I have tickets on air Spirit Airlines in June for Orlando,
and I got an email from them, I guess yesterday
that said that they were going to refund the money.
I was shocked that they'd been around for thirty four years, though.
Speaker 4 (10:10):
Yeah, I think most people were.
Speaker 1 (10:11):
I think they go like, well, I mean this garbage
air line has been around for ten minutes.
Speaker 4 (10:15):
But yeah, they've been around that long. So when do
you get your refund?
Speaker 5 (10:19):
They didn't. I didn't give a date or anything. They
just sam all money would be refunded.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Oh see, I thought they already started to implement those.
Speaker 1 (10:29):
Who's going to do with they fired Alice?
Speaker 4 (10:31):
Yeah, or whoever, I'll be in charge of that.
Speaker 5 (10:35):
I'm waiting to see.
Speaker 1 (10:36):
Right, Yeah, so the but so where can I do
you mind if I asked where were you?
Speaker 4 (10:41):
Where were you going.
Speaker 5 (10:43):
Orlando?
Speaker 4 (10:44):
Oh? You said that? I'm sorry? So have you have
you tried to book another flight?
Speaker 5 (10:49):
Not yet? I was going to do that today. And
so yeah, yeah, I heard that some airlines were supposed
to be trying to help out the passengers from Spirit,
but I don't even know which ones are doing that.
Speaker 1 (11:01):
Try United, try Frontier, try try any of them.
Speaker 2 (11:06):
But you have to prove that you were supposed to
be on Spirit to get that reduced fair.
Speaker 5 (11:11):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (11:12):
Send them the picture holding the Spirit bag. They were
very nice back then. No, And I do, like, I
feel horrible for all of the all of the people
that work there. Yeah, they're all out of work. But
I also I also feel bad for anybody that's like
I would bet. I think it is a safe bet.
And ma'am, I'm not saying this to trigger you. Everybody
(11:34):
who's waiting on a refund, I'd be willing to bet
you are not going to get a refund at all.
They have no money, they are bankrupt, they went out
of business.
Speaker 4 (11:47):
Yeah, the Spirit is already saying that most.
Speaker 2 (11:49):
People were refunded already.
Speaker 5 (11:51):
She didn't get hers, not yet, and hope. You know
the thing is, there's no one to call for it.
You know, it's not like you can call woman say
where's my money?
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Yeah? No, I hear you.
Speaker 1 (12:02):
Hey, I appreciate the phone call.
Speaker 4 (12:04):
Thank you. I bet most people have not gotten a refund.
Speaker 2 (12:06):
Now, did you only get the refund this past day
or two? If you booked through Spirit directly?
Speaker 3 (12:15):
So, if you did an Expedia or something, then.
Speaker 2 (12:18):
Is there going to be a delay in getting that
money back?
Speaker 4 (12:20):
Oh, there is going to be a delay. That delay
is called never where am I going?
Speaker 1 (12:25):
You don't believe them when they're I don't believe people
are going to get their money that they are saying
they already did it most to four people.
Speaker 4 (12:32):
I'm got most. I promise you. I promise you. People
are not getting refunds. Hi, Jelly in the morning.
Speaker 6 (12:40):
Hi, my name is Donna. I travel to Maryland from
Orlando every month, and I fly Spirit because of the
big front seat. And yeah, so I'm in Maryland right now,
and I was supposed to fly back on Mother's Day
and got the lovely alert stating that so sorry, you
have no flight.
Speaker 4 (12:58):
But you've got your refund already.
Speaker 6 (13:01):
Oh no, no, no, no no. And I have another
flight booked in June for Vegas.
Speaker 4 (13:07):
And that one they refunded.
Speaker 1 (13:09):
Nope, no, I.
Speaker 6 (13:10):
Haven't gotten a single refund. No, you can't even get anywhere.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
I have a question.
Speaker 6 (13:14):
I'm like a Spirit gold.
Speaker 1 (13:15):
Oh I didn't even know they made a gold level.
Speaker 6 (13:21):
So the only reason that I fly Spirit is so
I can sit in the big front seat. I refuse
to go in the back with the peasants, but I
can't afford first class, So that's how I roll.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
Right, Okay, I'll take that. Now, let me ask you this,
Let me ask you this. Did you book through Spirit
or do you book through Expedia?
Speaker 5 (13:38):
I booked directly through Spirit.
Speaker 6 (13:40):
There you go, and there's two feet You can't even
get anywhere on the app. You literally like you can't
see your pass, flights, your future flates, your receipts, anything.
It's literally just a pop up that says, so sorry,
So what do you.
Speaker 4 (13:53):
What are you going to do about getting back down
to Wait?
Speaker 1 (13:56):
So you you live in Orlando but come up here
for work or vice versa.
Speaker 6 (13:59):
Yeah, it's cracked. I live in Orlando, I got and
I fly up here for work every single month.
Speaker 1 (14:05):
So how are you?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
How are you going to get home?
Speaker 5 (14:08):
Well?
Speaker 6 (14:08):
I had to rebook a flight on Southwest, I know,
and that cost me more than my round trip flight
on Spirit.
Speaker 1 (14:19):
I was just going to ask, how much did it
cost you for your your flight, your one way flight
on south.
Speaker 6 (14:24):
My one way flight five eighty five?
Speaker 4 (14:26):
I believe that.
Speaker 1 (14:27):
No, I'm telling you it's one thousand dollars to fly
anywhere right now? Yep?
Speaker 6 (14:31):
Oh my tickets to Vegas were like two grand apiece, right,
but that on Spirit?
Speaker 5 (14:37):
Yeah? In Spirit? Oh my god, I'm not even you
know Spirit?
Speaker 4 (14:42):
Yeah, ma'am, you're the Spirit snob.
Speaker 6 (14:45):
You shouldn't be saying it like I really am the
spirit snob. I'm not even I even like looked different
here and I was like, no, no, no, nob but
can't afford delta verse class right.
Speaker 1 (14:57):
Well that's okay. Hey are you still what are you
going to do about? Like everything else in Vegas is booked?
Speaker 6 (15:03):
I know, so yeah, it's going to be a fun time.
I don't know, well, not driving the No.
Speaker 1 (15:12):
If you if you get if you get stuck here
for the next month, you'll.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Let me know.
Speaker 1 (15:18):
Oh I will all right on.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Very good. Thank you, ma'am, Thank you. There you go.
I'm telling you, nobody's getting refunds.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Well this person did. My daughter had a flat on
Spirit from Fort Lauderdale to b tow I May fourteenth,
and we just rebooked her flight last night on a
different airline. I just checked my bank account and the
forty seven dollars is in there.
Speaker 4 (15:37):
Forty seven How much did it cost on real? Less
than twenty round trip per ticket?
Speaker 2 (15:41):
No, I think it was.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Wasn't it twenty four?
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Yeah, it was a little over twenty dollars.
Speaker 1 (15:44):
Oh, it was less than twenty five, but it was.
It was twenty four dollars round trip.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
Yeah. Yeah, we flew for under one hundred dollars four
of us to Orlando.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Yes, we did unbelievable and it worked out problems.
Speaker 3 (16:01):
Not only did it work out, we got a gift, Yeah,
we got it.
Speaker 1 (16:03):
We got a bag that's a collector's item.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Now, people were trying to on Instagram, I notice, identify
the contents of your bag, and they definitely made out
the chapstick.
Speaker 4 (16:14):
Right.
Speaker 3 (16:15):
Do you remember we got a notebook?
Speaker 4 (16:17):
Weren't there band aids in case you got beat up?
Speaker 3 (16:19):
No elliot the oh I'm sorry, I don't want it,
or like an eyemasks.
Speaker 1 (16:24):
There was an eye mask okay, oh no, no no,
it was a mouth mask. It was a COVID mask.
I was trying to put it over my eyes. There
was didn't we get a pencil in a pad?
Speaker 4 (16:37):
We got it.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Definitely got a little black spirit notebook.
Speaker 4 (16:39):
Right, so you come right down so you could write
down help me on the on there?
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Are you really kicking them when they're down?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
They're out of business, Tyler. They fired seventeen thousand people. Yeah,
I don't like that, and they're not refunding everybody, although
that one person got forty seven dollars. Line four. Did
we also get hands sand? It's not a big one,
a small one. Hi, jelliot in the morning and cigarettes. Hello, Hi, Hi,
(17:08):
who's ass?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
This is Jackie?
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Hi. I am doing well, Jackie? What can I do
for you?
Speaker 5 (17:14):
So?
Speaker 7 (17:14):
I purchased my tickets through a firm for Spirit on
me for me fifth to fly out. I didn't even
get an email that this was happening. I got a
text from my sister with an Instagram post from BWI
that no one should report to the airport because Spirit
isn't there. So but I did get my credit back
through a firm, so I have the money in the
(17:35):
bank now. But I paid. I rebooked because I have
to fly out for this universal trip eighteen hundred dollars.
Speaker 8 (17:42):
I paid for the three of us.
Speaker 1 (17:44):
Oh boy, wait a minute, wait what by the way,
who's the firm that you book through?
Speaker 7 (17:50):
Firm is kind of like the afterpay thing, like where
you make payments monthly or every.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
Oh I got you. It's like like layaway.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Yeah, yeah, you get your tickets that and then. But
I already got my refunds already. But I did have
to pay out of pocket for my United's life. So
it came out to a thousand, eight hundred to fly
out to think tomorrow?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
And what was your what was and please listen while
you're in Orlando? What was the what was the cost
of your Spirit flights?
Speaker 7 (18:18):
Four hundred and nineteen dollars?
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Right?
Speaker 4 (18:20):
God damn it? Yeah, wow, it's a ton more expensive. Yeah,
all right, very good, thank you, yes, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
So twenty fourteen is when they painted all of their
jets yellow.
Speaker 4 (18:33):
What did they look like before that? Did it just
look like like blood and vomit?
Speaker 2 (18:39):
Elliott?
Speaker 4 (18:39):
What Tyler fights took place on Spirit?
Speaker 2 (18:43):
They were the logo was actually blue?
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Was it really?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
Yeah? And it was an all white basically all white pantscheme?
Speaker 1 (18:51):
And was it hand written Spirit in blue or did
they have like actual like artwork?
Speaker 2 (18:56):
What do you mean handwritten?
Speaker 1 (18:58):
They just sent some guys out there and just say, right,
Spirit on there. It's a trash airline. Oh there it is?
Oh you know what, that was pretty good looking.
Speaker 2 (19:07):
Look at here we go. This is from thirty years ago.
Speaker 4 (19:10):
Wow, that may be the plane we flew on.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
A Spirit it was it was an airline and then
became Spirit. So technically it goes back even first.
Speaker 3 (19:23):
Charter One rebranded to Spirit in ninety two.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
I've never even heard of Charter eighty three.
Speaker 9 (19:29):
To nineteen ninety two Charter one. Yes, and now they're
talking forty three years ago. And what is I'm being
told about? An effort for fans of Spirit. They're trying
to buy the airline. Why, oh, like a gofundmehoul, Why
would you buy Spirit?
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Hey, it's failing? Who wants in?
Speaker 4 (19:49):
No? No, no, no, it's not failing. It's failed.
Speaker 1 (19:51):
It's out of business, and you're going to buy Do
you realize they went out of business because they don't
make enough money to keep going. And I know that
they're talking about the fuel fuel and the fuel prices
and what I understand all of that. So you're gonna
buy it and sit on it until it goes down?
You gotta what who's flying the plane? All those people
are fired? It looks like, so now you're gonna go
(20:13):
hire pilots.
Speaker 2 (20:14):
I can't because of the internet issues, I can't load
this website. But it is a crowdfunded effort that would
include pilots.
Speaker 1 (20:24):
That would be like them saying, hey, listen, do you
hear all the clicking and popping?
Speaker 4 (20:28):
Elliott, do you want to buy our phone system? No?
Speaker 2 (20:32):
No, The People's Carrier movement to restart reaches twenty two
million dollars, twenty three million. It just keeps going up.
Speaker 4 (20:39):
They've raised twenty three million dollars.
Speaker 2 (20:42):
I'm trying.
Speaker 1 (20:43):
How expensive is it to run an airline more than that,
especially when you're selling tickets for twenty dollars?
Speaker 2 (20:51):
What does it say here? How do I get involved?
Speaker 4 (20:55):
Or is there?
Speaker 2 (20:56):
Has their website crashed? Is that the problem? It's actually
not what is on our end also though, but is
there that much interest?
Speaker 4 (21:03):
I have no idea.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Let's buy Spirit dot com? Oh no, here we go.
The website is now loading. How much are they up to?
Speaker 4 (21:11):
Hold on one second, sir?
Speaker 2 (21:14):
The response did crash the site that is written here
they are at Oh so these are people are pledging money.
Speaker 4 (21:24):
Oh I've done that.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
Elliott pledges money.
Speaker 1 (21:26):
I used to do that during the telethon, so i'd
hear my name on the radios.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Total pledged is eighty eight million dollars.
Speaker 4 (21:33):
Oh yeah, total received zero negative?
Speaker 2 (21:36):
Yeah?
Speaker 8 (21:37):
Hi?
Speaker 4 (21:37):
Who's this?
Speaker 1 (21:39):
Hey?
Speaker 2 (21:39):
This me?
Speaker 1 (21:40):
Yes, sir, Hey Elliott, Hey, welcome back, Diane, Thank you.
Speaker 8 (21:46):
I just wanted to say that the Spirit Airline thing. Dude,
I got so screwed over what happened. I planned for
So I planned for a flight in September to go
visit my kids and all that stuff in Virginia. I'm
living in Florida currently, and they completely canceled the order.
So I was like, Okay, you know, I'll go ahead
(22:07):
and get reimbursed. And that did not happen. I did
not have any reimbursement nothing.
Speaker 4 (22:16):
And so what are you doing about coming to visit
your kids?
Speaker 8 (22:20):
I mean, I'm just going to pay out a pocket.
I'm just gonna buy another flight. I guess you are.
I would assume that I'm going United or I mean,
I really don't want to do Jet Blue because that's
too expensive, but the United air flight seems like it's
the best option. But it was still like two more
(22:43):
to book the United flight, so like you have to
kind of correlate all that together.
Speaker 4 (22:49):
So yeah, yeah, that sucks. It's a huge inconvenience.
Speaker 1 (22:53):
And again I do feel I do feel horrible for
for everybody who worked for Spirit.
Speaker 4 (22:58):
I feel horrible for.
Speaker 1 (22:59):
Pilot and baggage handlers and ground crew and flight.
Speaker 4 (23:03):
Attendants and all of that.
Speaker 1 (23:04):
It's horrible. I feel bad for everybody, but yeah, that
sucks and everybody's inconvenience. But again, I do want to
stress you have not received your refund.
Speaker 8 (23:15):
No, I have not got my refund. I have not
reimbursed at all. Yeah. Nothing.
Speaker 4 (23:20):
That's why I'm encouraging people.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
If you don't get your refund and you're flying, especially
out of Richmond, take something, take a sign.
Speaker 2 (23:29):
So who who told Reuters most customers who booked with
credit or debit cards are refunded by Saturday evening.
Speaker 4 (23:35):
Oh Jim w Spirit.
Speaker 1 (23:37):
Oh than that most people are I'm telling you, and
you will not get a rid Who's going to give
it to you?
Speaker 3 (23:44):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (23:44):
Nobody.
Speaker 1 (23:45):
They turned off the lights.
Speaker 2 (23:48):
If they were reminded to.
Speaker 1 (23:50):
The they'll burn out.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
I'm trying to see who the spokesperson was.
Speaker 1 (23:57):
But we have to remember this for the next time,
because they did say, don't be surprised.
Speaker 3 (24:03):
If you get nothing. No, no, no, another airline goes
out of business.
Speaker 1 (24:07):
Yeah. Who are the ones, I said, Oh, Frontier and
Jet Blue? Jet Blue, they said, her on the are
hanging by a thread. Well, Tyler, you told us last
week there was only twenty five days of fuel left.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
Well that was the oil that was a jel Opnik
article but explained how that's not really gonna happen, meant
to induce panic.
Speaker 4 (24:27):
I have to get gas today.
Speaker 1 (24:28):
I went to get gas yesterday, but I was like,
maybe the prices will go down tomorrow, and they went up.
Speaker 2 (24:34):
Yeah. The one the shell near me is five nineteen.
Speaker 4 (24:36):
Are you serious on this? God?
Speaker 2 (24:38):
What regular unleaded?
Speaker 4 (24:39):
What's on next door? That one's always expensive?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Yeah, that one's probably like twenty three twenty four dollars.
That one's always it's cheaper to fly spirit than it
is to go there. The one next door is horrible.
Speaker 2 (24:52):
For those who have not been refunded. The process probably
did start, but it may take time to show up
in our guests account.
Speaker 1 (25:00):
Right, the process started it, but there's nobody at the
office to fulfill it.
Speaker 2 (25:05):
That is the thing you are hearing that you can't like,
there's no Yeah.
Speaker 3 (25:10):
Well it's like the woman said, we're trying to trying
to get through on the air.
Speaker 4 (25:15):
I'm sorry, Yeah, there's there is no app now there's.
Speaker 1 (25:18):
Nobody running it.
Speaker 4 (25:21):
God, that's crazy.
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