Spirit Airlines, a few years later in the first quarter, leaving bankruptcy. CEO TED Christie said the carrier is ready to accept rivals, including lean and competitor Southwest Airlines.
At the beginning of this week, the southwest, this was shocked by announcing that it would start charging for the first time for the first time for the largest local U.S. full of flying. (There are some exceptions to the rules of the new bag of Southwest, who entered into force in the end of May.)
“I think we will be a little painful because they found their feet, we will benefit from this,” said the soul Christie interviewed Thursday.
Southwest, all customers of all customers, two free checked bags, fuel prices and other crises, in most cases, and presented them in several years and presented them in several years and offer other crises and offer other crises and offered a perk.
Spirit Airlines, on the other hand, checked in a general la carte prices, seat assignments in the United States, checks, bags and other attachments. The largest airline, except southwest, has copied one or another.
South-Western Bags are starting to charge and submits the first basic economy class that does not allow the seat assignment or not allowed free changes, and the first basic economic class that the soul can win over customers.
Southwest said that last year will be rid of the open seating model of a single-class open.
“At least because they feel that it is easy, he chose southwest, choosing southwest and was the audience of people flying. They knew he would get two bags.” “Now this is not the case, it is easy to say that they will expand their aperties and look around now.”
The soul is smaller than southwest and is smaller than last year, but it competes by air in cities such as Kansas City, Missouri; Nashville, Tennessee; Columbus, Ohio; and milwaukee. If they look at travel sites as customers ExpeditionWhere there is a new southwestern entrant, the soul tickets can be cheaper and the results are higher.
Other airline heads also said they expect some southwestern customers to win.
Delta Air Lines President Glen Hauenstein, at a JPMorgan Industrial Conference on Tuesday, the free bag said that the free bag was the southwestern choice of consumers and now seize these customers. “
The Spirit offers more ticket packages that recently contains things like seat tasks and luggage.
The carrier is now aimed at returning to profitability. More than $ 1.2 billion loss last year, the loss of loss in 2023, because the Pratt & Whitney engine, higher expenses, more local competition and something failed Jetblue Airways.
The Spirit rejected many of the fossil combinations by the Budget Carrier Frontier Airlines. Christie said there was no “desktop” and a low-precautory carrier on Thursday and a low-precious carrier, but the airline is aimed at stabilizing after bankruptcy.
With the reconstruction process, which began in November, he reduced his spirit to $ 795 million, he said. The operation has made the debt to capital for major lenders. The carrier also received a $ 350 million capital infusion.
The spirit plans to direct shares to the stock exchange, but has not yet set a date.
