{"id":240407,"date":"2026-04-21T14:45:07","date_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:45:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240407\/"},"modified":"2026-04-21T14:45:07","modified_gmt":"2026-04-21T14:45:07","slug":"id-love-somebody-to-buy-spirit-sun-sentinel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/240407\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019d love somebody to buy Spirit\u2019 \u2013 Sun Sentinel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Donald Trump said Tuesday he\u2019d \u201clove somebody to buy\u201d financally troubled Spirit Airlines, which is struggling to reorganize under Chapter 11 bankuptcy.<\/p>\n<p>The president made the remarks during a live wide-ranging CNBC interview in the context of public speculation of a possible merger between Unted Airlines and American Airlines. Trump said he did not like the idea, which American has rejected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t mind mergers. I think I\u2019d love somebody to buy Spirit, as an example,\u201d Trump told interviewers on the CNBC program \u201cSquawk Box.\u201d \u201cYou know, Spirit\u2019s in trouble. Maybe the federal government should help that one out.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Trump also made a reference to 14,000 jobs being at stake at the Dania Beach-based budget ariline.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit has been reported by major financial outlets as being at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/04\/16\/reports-spirit-airlines-faces-liquidation-risk-amid-rising-fuel-costs-driven-by-war-with-iran\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">risk for liquidiation<\/a> amid high war-driven jet fuel prices and stiff creditor objections to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/03\/16\/spirit-to-focus-on-fort-lauderdale-orlando-new-york-and-detroit-after-leaving-bankruptcy\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">proposed reorganization plan<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The airline reportedly has pitched the U.S. Government for a bailout.<\/p>\n<p>The company has declined comment on the reports that it faces possible liquidation and has requested any federal aid. It had no immediate statement on the president\u2019s reference to a buyout.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy reportedly was scheduled to meet Tuesday with representatives of a discount airline trade group, of which Spirit is a member, to discuss the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sun-sentinel.com\/2026\/03\/18\/war-driven-fuel-price-spikes-could-hinder-spirit-airlines-finances-business-outlook\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">pressures of rising fuel prices<\/a> on the nation\u2019s budget carriers and the possibility of tax breaks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"President Donald Trump said Tuesday he\u2019d \u201clove somebody to buy\u201d financally troubled Spirit Airlines, which is struggling to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":240408,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[506,558,8904,28,29,249,251,250,686,114,123,373,115,557,109,1798,4556],"class_list":["post-240407","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-broward-county","tag-business","tag-dania-beach","tag-florida","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-hollywood","tag-latest-headlines","tag-miami","tag-miami-dade-county","tag-news","tag-palm-beach-county","tag-social","tag-transportation","tag-west-palm-beach"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240407","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=240407"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/240407\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/240408"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=240407"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=240407"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=240407"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}