Alison Sider

Yes, Spirit Airlines is dead.

It has been a long multi-year saga, but it has shut down.

All flights are canceled.

There is no more Spirit Airlines.

Its last flight was flight 1833 from Detroit to Dallas.

I think it landed a little bit after midnight central time on Saturday.

Oh, my God.

I don't even know where to start.

Like you could pinpoint the cause of death at so many different points.

I mean, the immediate cause of death was the rapid sustained rise in fuel prices due to the Iran war.

But that's like if someone has a heart attack, but they had like years of damage, coronary damage, you know, that was just like waiting for that one moment.

It was fuel prices in the end, but it was a really long, drawn out, slow demise up until that point.

Ultimately, it will leave consumers with one less choice and there will be one less airline kind of providing that competition.

So, you know, ultimately, even if you hated Spirit and never flew it and it drove you crazy, like ultimately it will affect you.

There had been budget travel in the U.S.

before.

You know, other airlines charged low fares.

But Spirit really revolutionized this idea of, they were called an ultra-low-cost carrier, and they offered, like, really cheap flights.

And I mean, that was like no water on the plane, you know, checked bags, carry on bags, printing out a boarding pass at the airport, like every single extra thing you wanted was going to cost you.

And people kind of hated that in some ways, because obviously it's very annoying to be nickel and dimed like that.