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- news@lemmy.world
Boeing, not Spirit, mis-installed piece that blew off Alaska MAX 9 jet, industry source says::The piece that blew off an Alaska Airlines jet this month was removed and re-installed improperly by Boeing mechanics in Renton, according to a person familiar with the details of…
Spirit Airlines is basically the “let’s grab the scraps from what’s left of the airline, we are literally the bottom of the barrel, but it’s the cheapest…”
It still seems to survive, and it is trying to be bought out
They’re talking about Spirit AeroSystems, which I believe is an unrelated company that just coincidentally also happens to be terrible at what they do.
I literally thought Spirit airlines too. Sometimes there’s partnerships where a segment might be operated by a smaller regional company so thought that was the case at first glance.
Spirit actually has the newest fleet of planes.