{"id":433029,"date":"2026-05-09T07:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/433029\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T07:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T07:32:10","slug":"spirit-exit-likely-to-lead-to-higher-u-s-airfares-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/433029\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit exit likely to lead to higher U.S. airfares, experts say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>New York \u2013 The demise of ultra low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines is expected to add further upward pressure to U.S. fares, according to experts.<\/p>\n<p>Launched in 1992, the company is responsible for the &#8220;Spirit Effect&#8221; in which bare-bones service opens up travel to a broader slate of customers otherwise priced out of the market.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit&#8217;s business model of stripped-down travel that includes no free meal service, baggage transport or other extras played a &#8220;unique and disruptive role in the industry,&#8221; the U.S. Department of Justice argued in 2023, as it sought to block a merger with JetBlue.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York \u2013 The demise of ultra low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines is expected to add further upward pressure&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":433030,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[35593,20420,42,43,193193,40,38,41,39,4374],"class_list":["post-433029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-airlines","tag-aviation","tag-headlines","tag-news","tag-spirit-airlines","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-u-s"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433029","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=433029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/433029\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/433030"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=433029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=433029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=433029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}