{"id":258041,"date":"2026-05-04T18:25:24","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:25:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258041\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T18:25:24","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T18:25:24","slug":"spirit-airlines-asks-guests-not-to-go-to-the-airport-or-expect-rebookings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/258041\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines asks guests not to go to the airport, or expect rebookings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"c-paragraph\">DANIA BEACH, Fla.  \u2014 Spirit Airlines is asking guests on Monday not to go to the airport, or to expect rebookings to other airlines. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Instead, the struggling discount carrier \u2014 that has twice filed for bankruptcy \u2014 announced that they will \u201cautomatically process refunds\u201d for flights purchased through Spirit with a credit or debit card.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiritrestructuring.com\/guests\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.spiritrestructuring.com\/guests\">Information for guests<\/a> <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Howard Musgrove said he was in Mississippi and looking forward to his cruise adventure out of South Florida when he learned that his flight was canceled. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">During a news conference at Newark Liberty International Airport, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced Spirit Airlines had ceased operations at 3 a.m. on Saturday. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related document: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/sites\/dot.gov\/files\/2026-05\/A4A%20Carrier%20Actions%20Supporting%20Spirit%20Customers%20Employees.pdf\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.transportation.gov\/sites\/dot.gov\/files\/2026-05\/A4A%20Carrier%20Actions%20Supporting%20Spirit%20Customers%20Employees.pdf\">Airlines For America plan<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cSpirit does not have airplanes in the air flying as of this morning. Also, their call centers are closed, and they don\u2019t have staff at ticket counters,\u201d Duff said. \u201cSo, if you have a flight scheduled with Spirit Airlines, don\u2019t show up at the airport. There will be no one here to assist you.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Musgrove said Spirit Airlines refunded him directly. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cI had to start scrambling to find another ride,\u201d Musgrove said on Monday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport\u2019s Terminal 4. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Duff said United Airlines, Delta, and JetBlue were capping ticket prices for Spirit Airlines customers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cYou have to go to their websites to take advantage of these special offers,\u201d Duff said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DANIA BEACH, Fla. \u2014 Spirit Airlines is asking guests on Monday not to go to the airport, or&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258042,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-258041","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258041","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=258041"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258041\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258041"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258041"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258041"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}