“It all came crashing down overnight, and here we are…stranded in Orlando,” Seuzeneau wrote in a post on Facebook Saturday.
Spirit’s shutdown follows years of restructuring efforts at the airline, which struggled financially in the wake of the coronavirus pandemic and filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in 2024 and 2025. President Donald Trump floated the idea of a bailout last week, but it’s unclear why exactly those discussions failed.
Seuzeneau said he’d been a frequent Spirit flyer for years, a fan of the no-frills flights offered at an unbeatable price. When he heard there was a chance the airline could go out of business, he booked a spontaneous trip to Disney World with his family to use up some of his loyalty points.