Ben Baldanza, who helped pioneer discount air travel as head of Spirit Airlines Inc. and became a target of passenger ...

Ben Baldanza, the former CEO of Spirit Airlines, died on Tuesday following a battle with ALS. He was 62 years old.

Former Spirit Airlines CEO and airline industry communicator Ben Baldanza passed away on November 5, 2024, at the age of 62.

ARLINGTON, Virginia—Ben Baldanza, former president and CEO of U.S. ULCC Spirit Airlines, died Nov. 5 after a long battle with ...

Ben Baldanza, who worked four decades in the US airline industry and helped create the ultra-low-cost model as former chief ...

Ben Baldanza, who helped pioneer discount air travel as head of Spirit Airlines Inc. and became a target of passenger irritation over no-frills flights, has died. He was 62.

While the Florida-based Spirit Airlines (SAVE) was founded in the 1980s and took its first flight in 1990, the budget airline ...

Former Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza, 62, died Nov. 5, former Wall Street Journal travel columnist Scott McCartney confirmed on his podcast, which he had co-hosted with Baldanza.

Former Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza has sadly passed away at the age of 62 following a battle with ALS. The pioneering ...

Ben Baldanza, who was perhaps best known in the aviation world for helping to pioneer discount air travel at the US's Spirit Airlines, has died aged 62. An obituary has been posted on Baldanza’s ...

“It was hard to say what the business model was,” Cook told me. When Ben Baldanza became the CEO in 2005, he transformed Spirit into a ULCC and, within a few years, made it the most profitable ...