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May 2 • 35 tweets • 5 min read
🧵: Since people want to blame the Democrats for Spirit Airlines failing. Spirit was going to fail regardless of merging with Frontier, JetBlue or a Government Bailout.
Here is a lengthy and I'm sure not fully detailed timeline of Spirit Airlines and it's collapse.
Dec. 2019: At the end of the year, Spirit posts a net income of $335.2M and a total debt of $3.57B, JetBlue posts a net income $569M and a debt of $3.15B. Frontier posts a net income $54M and a debt of $2.5B.
Nov 22, 2022 • 54 tweets • 22 min read
🧵I am slowly going through the Deposition of Richie Armstrong of the Slingshot Group and man. Here is some things that have stood out to me:
1. Richie Armstrong did not see any training from the manual and was under the belief that Funtime was handling all of it.
Mar 25, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
[THREAD] I would first like send my condolences to the family of the 14 year old who died after the incident on the Orlando Free last night.
However, I’m sadly not surprised about the incident last night. I’ve been concerned about the safety operations there for a while.
The owner also runs the Slingshot attraction at Old town that had a cable malfunction mid-ride one year ago this evening (03/25/21), that required the fire department to rescue the two guests from the ride. clickorlando.com/news/local/202…
