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Goodbye Spirit Airlines · The Cubby and Christine Morning Show

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  Speaker 1: One of six point seven light FM. Cubby and Christine
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  Speaker 1: in the morning produce a Christian producing in the background
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  Speaker 1: and coming off the weekend. There was a lot going
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  Speaker 1: on this weekend, but I gotta tell you flying a
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  Speaker 1: few stories made the headlines, and I mean, where do
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  Speaker 1: we start. We got we got Spirit going out of business.
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  Speaker 1: You have United hitting a light pole. I mean.
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  Speaker 2: That that was crazy, right, Okay, let's start with that
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  Speaker 2: because we were saying earlier, you've driven on the New
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  Speaker 2: Jersey Turnpike, right, and you feel like, well, the planes
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  Speaker 2: feel so close that sometimes I duck, which I know
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  Speaker 2: is ridiculous, but it must be just some you know,
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  Speaker 2: nervous system reaction. Uh huh. But yeah, A plane coming
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  Speaker 2: in from Italy clipped a light pole, which then hit
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  Speaker 2: attractor trailer, so that driver think, goodness, he's okay, right,
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  Speaker 2: very scary, but he has to be pretty shaken up.
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  Speaker 1: My wife showed me the video of inside of this vehicle,
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  Speaker 1: and U and the drivers just kind of, you know,
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  Speaker 1: vibe into the music, yes, right, kind of noticed the
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  Speaker 1: plane and then boom it just goes off like yeah,
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  Speaker 1: here a crash and all that, and like, like you said,
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  Speaker 1: he's okay, but when they're when they're approaching when I
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  Speaker 1: say they when the planes are approaching runway two nine,
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  Speaker 1: which is usually you know, on windy days, when they're flying,
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  Speaker 1: they're landing towards the west, so they're coming around kind
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  Speaker 1: of bayone and Newark Bay, and then they're flying right
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  Speaker 1: over the turnpike. And that's when you said, you see
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  Speaker 1: the landing gear, you feel like you can touch it.
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  Speaker 1: And it happens all the time. And sometimes I say
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  Speaker 1: to myself, you know what, the plane's so big, it
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  Speaker 1: looks like it's a lot closer than it really is.
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  Speaker 1: But apparently I was wrong, because this thing again clipped
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  Speaker 1: a light pole on the turnpike, and again nobody heard it.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, we're fortunate. Everyone's okay. And then did you wake
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  Speaker 2: up Saturday morning and find that Spirit Airlines had shut down?
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  Speaker 1: And when they shut down, they meant it, they meant it.
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  Speaker 1: I mean, yeah, the app wouldn't open.
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  Speaker 2: I heard no customer service, no customer service, So if
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  Speaker 2: you had a flight, they can't help you to, you know,
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  Speaker 2: find a different airline. So I mean, what's nice as
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  Speaker 2: the other airlines like Jet Blue and United and Delta,
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  Speaker 2: I'm sure American they're stepping up and they're offering flights
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  Speaker 2: at you know, reasonable prices for people who were kind
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  Speaker 2: of in a jam, one way, non refundable flights to
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  Speaker 2: get them to their destination. But that's only like within
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  Speaker 2: a certain window, right, I think until.
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  Speaker 1: Like middle of May. The link I saw in United
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  Speaker 1: it was like, if you had, if you had travel
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  Speaker 1: plans from now into like May eighteenth or something, we'll
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  Speaker 1: try to accommodate you. Use this link, right and you'll
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  Speaker 1: get a deal.
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  Speaker 2: Because Eric and I had we almost booked something on Spirit.
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  Speaker 2: We were just just looking for a flight recently, and
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  Speaker 2: we almost went with Spirit, but it had been in
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  Speaker 2: the news that they might be shutting down because bankruptcy.
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  Speaker 1: You're apprehensive about it, so.
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  Speaker 2: We didn't do it. So ultimately I'm relieved we didn't
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  Speaker 2: do it. And they're saying like people will get their
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  Speaker 2: money back right away if you booked directly with the airline,
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  Speaker 2: but if you used a travel agent or like Expedia
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  Speaker 2: or something like that, it's it's going to be a
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  Speaker 2: little while.
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  Speaker 1: When I was traveling on the Turnpike this morning, you know,
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  Speaker 1: I'm coming from East Brunswick, coming north, and I'm coming
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  Speaker 1: towards the city, and when I passed Newark on the
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  Speaker 1: left hand side, I saw about twelve Spirit flights, not flights,
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  Speaker 1: but planes just lined up and dark. Oh and it
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  Speaker 1: was kind of sad, like it said, they were just
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  Speaker 1: parked and I don't know what they're going to do
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  Speaker 1: with them. I mean, maybe another airline will swoop in
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  Speaker 1: and buy those planes. There's also a hope of maybe
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  Speaker 1: revitalizing and wonder.
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  Speaker 2: A movement where people, the people are so Spirit, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: are like we can buy it, you know, like let's
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  Speaker 2: get together people and buy Spirit Airlines. I mean, it's
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  Speaker 2: got this huge ripple effects because there's all these people
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  Speaker 2: losing their jobs. Then there's the options for flights that
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  Speaker 2: are no longer on the table, you know, and Spirit
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  Speaker 2: could be more affordable. So it's tough. And then there's
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  Speaker 2: a story. Did you hear about this Spirit pilot John Jackson.
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  Speaker 2: It was supposed to have been his final retirement flight
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  Speaker 2: on Saturday, but the airlines shut down hours before, meaning
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  Speaker 2: he missed it by one day. So we flew back
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  Speaker 2: home on Southwest as a passenger with his son, which
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  Speaker 2: could have been anticlimactic, but Southwest caught wind of it
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  Speaker 2: and they set it up so that he had a
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  Speaker 2: mini retirement party with their staff at the arrival gate.
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  Speaker 1: Oh I'm glad that he was able to at least
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  Speaker 1: celebrate that moment.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, boss I said in his speech, He's like, is
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  Speaker 2: very overwhelming. I can't thank you all enough. As spirit
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  Speaker 2: goes down. This is a sad day and you guys
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  Speaker 2: made it incredible. Thank you so much.
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  Speaker 1: All right, Well, we're thinking about all the people that
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  Speaker 1: were impacted by it. It's tough right now. Yeah, we're
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