A Spirit Airlines fan has launched Spirit 2.0, a crowdsourcing effort to buy the airline: 'The people can own it'

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Spirit Airlines shut down in the early hours of Saturday morning. By that evening, one superfan was already trying to save it.

"We could buy Spirit Airlines," Hunter Peterson, a voice actor who once flew Spirit Airlines for 24 hours straight, said with excitement in an Instagram post.

"This started as a joke and this is rapidly going out of control in the best possible way," he said in another post.

By "we," Peterson meant everyday people, including former employees and passengers. He is calling his movement Spirit 2.0 and is encouraging people to come together to purchase the airline before private equity does.

https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spirit-airlines-fan-launched-spirit-194010443.html

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1. Eastern .... the Wings of Man

Over the long haul, airlines don't make money. Regulated, jet fuel prices, price of planes, wages. So many airlines have gone under. They can barely meet the cost of operation.

Pan-Am
TWA
Eastern
and many others.

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2. If you want to make a small fortune in aviation,

start with a large fortune.