When Spirit shuttered operations on May 2, its remaining fleet consisted of 114 Airbus A320-family aircraft.
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Sitting in a Boston courtroom in 2023, Ted Christie, then CEO of Spirit Airlines, told a federal judge that the carrier had begun exploring merger options when the business was still solidly profitable. Concerned that independent growth would not be enough, the ultra-low-cost carrier’s (ULCC) merger...
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