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The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

There are many ways to eulogize Spirit Airlines, the budget airline that just shut down operations for good.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

The easiest way and the most entertaining would be to simply play some of their most ghetto moments.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

And as we all know, there are many, many such moments.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

Unless you're a world star power user, there's simply no way you've seen all of them.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

Critics might say that this would be a really cheap and insensitive way to memorialize an airline that's existed in one form or another for more than 40 years.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

and which employed nearly 20,000 people.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

And while those critics would be absolutely right in saying that, we're still going to do it anyway in just a second.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

But we're also going to talk about how exactly Spirit collapsed and how this could be a moment to finally improve the abysmal quality of air travel in this country, which, as we've discussed many times, has been in a state of constant decline for a long time now.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

A lot of people are saying that Spirit's passengers are going to break containment and degrade the quality of air travel for everybody else because they can't go to Spirit.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

Now they're going to go on all the other airlines and we'll have to deal with them.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

But there's no reason that that needs to happen.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

And at the moment, we're in a unique position to prevent it from happening, or at least to prevent the degradation of air travel in general.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

That doesn't need to occur.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

This is, after all, a historic moment.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

It's the first time that a major U.S.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

airline has shut down completely in more than two decades without any kind of merger.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

In the middle of the night, all of their operations stopped immediately.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

And as the last Spirit planes landed, their pilots and other pilots and air traffic controllers started to get emotional, understandably, on the radio.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

Yeah, no kidding.

The Matt Walsh Show
Ep. 1773 - Idiot Politicians Killed Spirit Airlines. Here’s Why That’s Bad News For You.

Now, Spirit began as Charter One Airlines in 1983, where they mainly ferried gamblers to Atlantic City and Vegas before officially becoming Spirit Airlines in 1992.

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