Remember to leave your predictions for 2026 in the comments. I will as usual only consider the first prediction you make when I evaluate guesses next year, and some of you will continue to ignore that ...

It’s the end of another year, and I did some good flying this year, but I just didn’t do that much of it. With the exception of a Hawaiʻi trip, it was entirely a year of going up and down the coast.

What this means is that November should have been our first look at whether Spirit was going to have a functioning airline buried in its bloated former self, but the shutdown has clouded that data ...