A Spirit Airlines and Sprint PCS Merger?

Jeanne Marie Hoffman September 17, 2014 Spirit Airlines 1 Comment

On the Twittersphere, we’ve been discussing the news that Spirit Airlines has come up with a new paint job.

Here’s all the information on Today in the Sky plus a cool video of them spraying the planes.

But when GhettoIFE started discussing this with us on Twitter, we came up with an interesting conclusion.

Is Spirit trying to fake a Sprint merger?

Look at the color schemes:

Livery alert: @SpiritAirlines picks flamboyant yellow as U.S. airlines repaint planes http://t.co/NzQcPc8t9t – pic.twitter.com/1f4YRO6bNI

â€” Ben Mutzabaugh (@TodayInTheSky) September 16, 2014

and

#LetsBeClear our Family Share Pack is the best deal in data w/ 20GB, up to 10 lines at $100/mo http://t.co/7AmtD7uHlz pic.twitter.com/MxskfLi3T6 â€” Sprint (@sprint) September 16, 2014

Hmmm…..

As to the actual color change, I was wondering when that was going to happen.

The planes weren’t matching any of the web-based branding.

For example(s):

And while I agree with USA Today’s BenÂ Mutzabaugh that the color is “flamboyant,” I think it is better than the cartoon-y primary colors they were displaying before. Â I don’t like that color scheme on the Park Inn brandÂ and I didn’t like it on Spirit. Â It seemed to make things like their canned wineÂ even more comical. Â (I’m still sorry-not-sorry about that, Tiff).

Hat tip to my conversation with GhettoIFE and reader Matt C.!