“Spirit flaunted a low-cost model, with some domestic flights costing less than a cab to the airport. The experience was purely, aggressively functional. From Point A to Point B,”
Doreen St. Félix writes. “If Pan American Airways represented, at its height, victory and suavity, the country achieving a kind of European state of grace, then Spirit was the exact opposite—synonymous with the rowdy and the rude at the heart of the American character.”
Now, following one failed government bailout and a couple of failed mergers, the airline is closing its distinctive canary-yellow doors for good, leaving 17,000 workers in need of employment, and thousands of customers awaiting refunds. Read more about the death of Spirit Airlines: www.newyorker.com/culture/critics-notebook...