Zoe Chase
speaker
252 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Apr 2026
last heard 19 Aug
Zoe Chase’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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There's no receptionist.
The only thing there is a chair, a little table and a phone.
You pick up the phone and you call whoever you're there to see.
And we were there to see Ben Baldanza, the CEO of Spirit Airlines.
And to compare your company to the dollar store, that's kind of an unusual comparison for a CEO to make, especially in the airline industry.
Airlines have always tried to sell themselves to us as the nicest, the most comfortable, the most legroom, like this ad from United, for instance.
And it wasn't really working.
So in 2006, Ben Baldanza and Spirit Airlines made a decision.
They were going to try to do in America what airlines like Ryanair and AirAsia were doing in other parts of the world.
They were going to build an airline that just competed on price.
When you buy a ticket on Spirit, all you're paying for is the ride.
That's part of the reason that Spirit is so cheap.
Baldanza's case for Spirit Airlines makes sense.
Pay for what you use.
Don't pay for what you don't use.
And Spirit is really cheap.
And also, we talked to some people who were totally on board with Spirit's program.
Yes, it sucks that the seats don't recline and you have to pay to use the overhead bin, but it's cheap, and I planned ahead, and I'm happy with this tradeoff.
Thank you for flying with us this evening.
Back on our flight home, Barbara Dingus, our flight attendant, says she sees the hate flyers all the time.
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