{"id":430844,"date":"2026-05-07T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430844\/"},"modified":"2026-05-07T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T23:36:09","slug":"u-s-airlines-turn-the-page-as-spirits-chapter-ends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/430844\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Airlines Turn the Page As Spirit\u2019s Chapter Ends"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>    U.S. Airlines Turn the Page As Spirit\u2019s Chapter Ends | Aviation Week Network<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg<\/p>\n<p>        <a href=\"#main-content\" class=\"visually-hidden focusable\"><br \/>\n      Skip to main content<br \/>\n    <\/a><\/p>\n<p>    <a id=\"main-content\" tabindex=\"-1\"\/>    <\/p>\n<p>                        <a class=\"article__byline\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/christine-boynton\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Boynton<\/a><br \/>\n                    May 08, 2026<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/usairlines_1-joe_raedle-getty_images_promo.jpg\" alt=\"Spirit Airlines aircraft in airport\" class=\"b-lazy  img \"\/><\/p>\n<p>When Spirit shuttered operations on May 2, its remaining fleet consisted of 114 Airbus A320-family aircraft.<\/p>\n<p>Credit: Joe Raedle\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>  Sitting in a Boston courtroom in 2023, Ted Christie, then CEO of Spirit Airlines, told a federal judge that the carrier had begun exploring merger options when the business was still solidly profitable. Concerned that independent growth would not be enough, the ultra-low-cost carrier\u2019s (ULCC) merger&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>        <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/cb_web_headshot_png.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"b-lazy  img author__image \"\/><\/p>\n<p>          <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/author\/christine-boynton\" class=\"author--teaser__name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Christine Boynton<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"author--teaser__bio\">Christine Boynton is a Senior Editor covering air transport in the Americas for Aviation Week Network.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">U.S. Airlines Turn the Page As Spirit\u2019s Chapter Ends is available to both\u00a0Aviation Week &amp; Space Technology\u00a0and AWIN subscribers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/products\/aviation-week-space-technology\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe now<\/a> to read this content, plus receive critical analysis into emerging trends, technological advancements, operational best practices and continuous updates to policy, requirements and budgets.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:25px;\">Already a subscriber to AW&amp;ST or AWIN? <a href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Log in<\/a> with your existing email\u00a0and password.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"btn button button--primary button--yellow float-left\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/products\/aviation-week-space-technology\" role=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe<\/a><a class=\"btn button button--primary button--yellow float-left ml-3\" href=\"https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/user\/login\" role=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0Log in\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"U.S. Airlines Turn the Page As Spirit\u2019s Chapter Ends | Aviation Week Network https:\/\/aviationweek.com\/themes\/custom\/particle\/dist\/app-drupal\/assets\/AW_logo_horizontal_small_white.svg Skip to main content&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":430845,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":["post-430844","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430844","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=430844"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/430844\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/430845"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=430844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=430844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=430844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}