Transport Minister Sean Duffy is launching a civility campaign, ‘Dress Better, Act Better, Fly Better’, urging air travelers to dress respectfully and exercise courtesy.
Transport Minister Sean Duffy announced a number of relief measures for Spirit Airlines customers and employees on Saturday.
The four major U.S. airlines — United, Delta, JetBlue and Southwest — are “all capping ticket prices specifically for Spirit customers who now need to rebook canceled flights,” Duffy said in a Saturday post on
“I would recommend that if you have a ticket with spice that you try to book with these airlines as soon as possible, these deals won’t stay open forever,” he said.
Additional measures will also be taken for both customers and former Spirit employees, including a pathway for preferential job interviews at other airlines, Duffy wrote.
“There is a demand for airline workers. So even American and United have designed or created microsites for Spirit employees to potentially queue up and get preferential treatment in the interview process for the many airlines that are now hiring. Whether they are pilots, flight attendants, baggage handlers or even those who worked in the call centers, you can go to the individual websites to see what each of the individual airlines has to offer,” Duffy said.
Spirit Airlines announced the suspension of its operations early Saturday morning, Duffy announced.
“This morning at 3 a.m., Spirit Airlines ceased operations. That means Spirit will no longer have any planes in the air as of this morning. Additionally, their call centers are closed and they have no staff at the ticket counters. So if you have a flight scheduled on Spirit Airlines, don’t show up at the airport. There won’t be anyone here to help you,” Duffy said.
Duffy also slammed Democrats, particularly the Biden administration, for what he said was their role in destroying a failed merger between Spirit and JetBlue.
“Why are we here today?” Duffy asked. ‘There was a proposed merger between JetBlue and Spirit, and Joe Biden and [Biden Transportation Secretary] Pete Buttigieg decided along with the Biden DOJ that they did not want that merger to happen.”
“And at the time, the Biden and Buttigieg DOJ bragged and said, when they canceled the option for this merger, that this was a win for American travelers who deserve lower prices and better choices,” Duffy continued.
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“This merger should have been allowed. And this would indicate today that this is not better for travelers. This is not better for pricing. This is not better for competition. In fact, it is worse. We had an airline go under because the markets tried to merge two airlines, make them stronger and provide more competition to the American consumer,” he said.
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