Spirit's collapse left dozens of bright yellow jets scattered around the country.

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The company’s collapse started the clock on a mission to collect dozens of planes and deposit them in Arizona boneyards. on.wsj.com/4wrfu3G

Spirit’s collapse left dozens of bright yellow jets scattered around the country.
Picking them up is the job of repo men with a special set of skills.
The company’s collapse started the clock on a mission to collect dozens of planes and deposit them in Arizona boneyards.
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6:05 AM · May 11, 2026

The company’s collapse started the clock on a mission to collect dozens of planes and deposit them in Arizona boneyards. on.wsj.com/4wrfu3G

— The Wall Street Journal (@wsj.com) 2026-05-11T10:05:09.061393Z

The World’s Highest-Flying Repo Men Are Collecting Spirit Airlines’ Jets

Company’s collapse started the clock on a mission to retrieve dozens of planes and deposit them in Arizona boneyards; ‘Can I fly in shorts?’

By Alison Sider
May 11, 2026 5:30 am ET


“You can’t just hop fences and take airplanes,’ said Steve Giordano. ‘It’s not like they do on TV.’ Steve Giordano

The first call came to Bob Allen’s phone at 6 p.m. ET on a Friday. The message: Get the repo men ready.

Spirit Airlines was still in operation and planes were in the air. But the aircraft leasing firms that own dozens of its bright yellow jets were getting anxious as Spirit barreled toward liquidation. They wanted their planes back.

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1. Didn't Musk buy it?......

more planes to deport Americans the RWer don’t want here since they think it’s their gawd’s plan to hate is ok.

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2. warning - yet another subscription required to read article at link nt

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3. Here's how you can take care of that.

Please note that you are not getting something for nothing. You are paying the taxes that keep your library running. It is paying the subscription fees to the databases that they library has access to. The databases on doling out payment to publications allocated on the basis of who accesses what. The newspapers are paid when their articles are accessed. The reporters are employed by the newspapers. Money changes hands at every step. There's no free lunch.

It's like my city's "free" bus system. No, it isn't free. It's just set up such that when people board, they can walk directly back to their seat with having to have their cards scanned. The first half of this year's property taxes are due in a month. I know who pays for the transit system here. Anyway ...

Sun Feb 13, 2022: How to get around the paywall at national newspapers

Because the Washington Post, like the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal., is a national newspaper, it is almost certainly available on your public library's database. As in, available for free, with no paywall.

You don't have to go to the library. Since you're reading this, you have access to a computer. Log into your account at the library and find the database of newspapers. The Post will be there. Ask your librarian for help if you need it.

{edited to add} The library doesn't have to be open. Its website is running 24/7, so you can log in at 2:00 a.m. on Sunday morning to read the newspaper.

Articles in the Cody, Wyoming, Enterprise, the Fairhope, Alabama, Times, or the Kodiak, Alaska, Daily Mirror might be just a bit harder to find.

I'll keep posting this as many times as I have to.

* Free, in the sense that you pay for it with your taxes. That kind of free.