Spirit Airlines‘ more than three-decade run ended over the weekend, but on Tuesday it was just starting the monthslong process of dismantling the company after the biggest U.S. airline collapse in a generation. Spirit and its stakeholders were in bankruptcy court in White Plains, New York, to start that process, which will take months. The…
Spirit Airlines kiosks at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on May 2, hours after the carrier shut down. Leslie Josephs/CNBC BALTIMORE/NEW YORK — Spirit Airlines was hours away from its final flights Friday afternoon. Jeremiah Burton was hours away from his first. “It’s my first time flying,” Burton, a 45-year-old air conditioning and heating technician, told…
JetBlue Airways is moving forward with its flight plans at Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, its president said, regardless of whether the airport’s No. 1 carrier, Spirit Airlines, gets a government bailout. JetBlue, United Airlines, Frontier Airlines, Breeze Airways and others added flights last year at Fort Lauderdale, Florida, which is Spirit’s home hub as well…
A Spirit Airlines Airbus A320 taxis at Los Angeles International Airport after arriving from Boston on Sept. 1, 2024. Kevin Carter | Getty Images News | Getty Images Spirit Airlines‘ future is hanging in the balance over the next week as President Donald Trump said the government could bail out the airline, and the struggling…
Spirit Airlines’ accessible cash to keep operating won’t last long and a government rescue package is on the table, a lawyer for the struggling budget carrier said at a hearing Thursday. President Donald Trump later Thursday at the White House told reporters: “We’re thinking about doing it, helping them out, meaning bailing them out, or…
Spirit Airlines airplanes taxi on the tarmac at New York’s Laguardia Airport in the Queens borough of New York City, U.S., Nov. 7, 2025. Ryan Murphy | Reuters Spirit Airlines could liquidate as early as this week, according to people familiar with the matter. They spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss matters that…
A Spirit Airlines plane is at George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston, Dec. 29, 2025. Reginald Mathalone | Nurphoto | Getty Images Spirit Airlines, trying to emerge from its second bankruptcy in less than a year, has sold another 20 of its Airbus planes and is bringing flight attendants back from furlough. The sale of…
Businesswoman working on laptop in modern office space Momo Productions | Digitalvision | Getty Images Student debt has long been considered difficult, if not impossible, to discharge in bankruptcy. But that hasn’t been the case in recent years, a new study finds. The success rate for student loan borrowers who attempt to discharge their debt…
Medianews Group/boston Herald Via Getty Images | Medianews Group | Getty Images Los Angeles resident Ruth Horne, 76, enticed by a bargain, bought what she thought was a Roomba to vacuum her house, but the experience ended in frustration. “It kept getting stuck somewhere and would then just go around in circles,” Horne said. She…
A Spirit Airlines jet takes off above two United Airlines airplanes at Newark Liberty Airport on March 23, 2018 in Newark, New Jersey. Gary Hershorn | Getty Images LONG BEACH, Calif. — United Airlines CEO Scott Kirby on Thursday predicted Spirit Airlines is going out of business and said the once-profitable discount airline model is…
