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188 - Ted Christie, CEO, Spirit Airlines on stage at Aviation Festival Americas

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JetBlue Spirit: A Low-Cost Business

The government has not been willing to invest in that, which is quite frustrating. Spirit turns anywhere from eight to 10 flights on a gate per day. We are very efficient with our gate use. And so if we could more efficiently allocate that resource, we could drive more flying into that in lower fares. So combined, we would be, obviously, the fifth largest airline. It'd be about 10% of the market and half the size of the fourth airline.

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