{"id":235369,"date":"2026-04-17T08:31:15","date_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:31:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235369\/"},"modified":"2026-04-17T08:31:15","modified_gmt":"2026-04-17T08:31:15","slug":"south-florida-based-spirit-airlines-may-be-forced-to-liquidate-due-to-surging-fuel-costs-95-5-wsb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/235369\/","title":{"rendered":"South Florida-based Spirit Airlines may be forced to liquidate due to surging fuel costs \u2013 95.5 WSB"},"content":{"rendered":"

The end of South Florida<\/a>-based Spirit Airlines<\/a> could be near after multiple news outlets report that the low-cost airline could be forced to liquidate its assets due to skyrocketing fuel prices.<\/p>\n

The fuel price hikes could really be the final straw for the Dania Beach<\/a>-based carrier, according to the Wall Street Journal<\/a> and other news outlets, who say that Spirit Airlines<\/a> could liquidate as soon as this week.<\/p>\n

Spirit Airlines operates more than 500 daily flights to more than 60 destinations, including at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport<\/a> and Miami International Airport<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The budget airline has been facing financial headwinds for several years. The airline has been trying to recover from its second bankruptcy in less than a year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Now, it\u2019s facing the added challenge of the spike in fuel prices.<\/p>\n

Recently pilot and flight attendant unions made concessions to help Spirit Airlines survive. The airline was also trying to bring in higher-spending customers with bigger seats and bundled fares to compete with rival airlines.<\/p>\n

Spirit Airlines had also been downsizing its fleet and pulling routes in an attempt to get back on track.<\/p>\n

Spirit Airlines isn\u2019t the only airline to be impacted. Many airlines have increased ticket prices and bag fees to try and curb the surging fuel costs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The end of South Florida-based Spirit Airlines could be near after multiple news outlets report that the low-cost…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235370,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[104912,38840,28656,77892,26443,6731,20298,24913,23320,20334,36550,249,251,250,77897,85933,35702,104913,104914,85934,10258,10255,17446,19324,8849,1316,1798,107,17491,104915],"class_list":{"0":"post-235369","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fort-lauderdale","8":"tag-a320","9":"tag-airbus","10":"tag-aircraft","11":"tag-airliner","12":"tag-airplane","13":"tag-airport","14":"tag-arrival","15":"tag-aviation","16":"tag-copy-space","17":"tag-flight","18":"tag-fly","19":"tag-fort-lauderdale","20":"tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","21":"tag-fort-lauderdale-news","22":"tag-jet","23":"tag-landing-gear","24":"tag-milwaukee","25":"tag-mke","26":"tag-n973nk","27":"tag-negative-space","28":"tag-plane","29":"tag-runway","30":"tag-spirit","31":"tag-spirit-airlines","32":"tag-taxi","33":"tag-tourism","34":"tag-transportation","35":"tag-travel","36":"tag-trip","37":"tag-wheels"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235369","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235369\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}