{"id":82570,"date":"2026-05-02T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=82570"},"modified":"2026-05-02T08:13:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T12:13:00","slug":"spirit-airlines-goes-out-of-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/spirit-airlines-goes-out-of-business\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines Goes Out Of Business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From AP:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Spirit Airlines, the infamous yellow budget airline that competed against major carriers for over three decades,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #000000;\"><a style=\"color: #000000;\" href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/04\/22\/business\/spirit-airlines-nears-deal-to-be-rescued-after-trump-urges-someone-to-buy-bankrupt-airline\/\">turned off its engines<\/a> f<\/span>or the final time early Saturday morning.\u00a0Company officials announced that the airline, which employed more than 17,000 people, has gone out of business and ceased operations \u201ceffective immediately\u201d after it was unable to secure enough funding from the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is with great disappointment that on May 2, 2026, Spirit Airlines started an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately,\u201d the company wrote in a statement to its website.<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"news\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1777709580\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Spirit Airlines Goes Out Of Business\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From AP: Spirit Airlines, the infamous yellow budget airline that competed against major carriers for over three decades,\u00a0turned off its.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-82570","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82570","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82570"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82570\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":82571,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82570\/revisions\/82571"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82570"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82570"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82570"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}