The Business Decisions That Broke Spirit Airlines

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Spirit Airlines didn’t collapse overnight—the warning signs were years in the making. 

In this episode, Head Coach John Felkins unpacks Spirit’s rise and fall to reveal how a successful business can become dangerously fragile when it stops adapting and leaves no margin for the unexpected.

 

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