Officials from Nashville International Airport are urging Spirit Airlines passengers to contact other air carriers to explore rebooking options after the discount carrier abruptly ended operations May 2.\u00a0<\/p>\n
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Thousands of travelers were left stranded across the country as Spirit cancelled all flights and ended customer service.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Prior to its closure,\u00a0Spirit operated 11 flights weekly from Nashville\u2019s BNA airport to Orlando\u00a0and 14 weekly flights from Nashville to Fort Lauderdale. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cWe are deeply saddened by the news that our airline partner,\u00a0Spirit Airlines, is ceasing all operations and canceling all flights,\u201d Nashville International Airport posted on its official Facebook page Saturday. \u201cPer the airline, guests with previously confirmed Spirit tickets should not come to the airport.\u201d\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Spirit announced an \u201corderly wind-down of operations\u201d on Saturday and cited a rise in\u00a0fuel prices as what ultimately left the company with no other alternative but to shutter operations. \u00a0<\/p>\n
\u201cIn March 2026, we reached an agreement with our bondholders on a restructuring plan that would have allowed us to emerge as a go-forward business,\u201d Dave Davis, Spirit\u2019s president and CEO, said in the release. \u201cHowever, the sudden and sustained rise in fuel prices in recent weeks ultimately has left us with no alternative but to pursue an orderly wind-down of the company. Sustaining the business required hundreds of millions of additional dollars of liquidity that Spirit simply does not have and could not procure. This is tremendously disappointing and not the outcome any of us wanted.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Other airline carriers quickly stepped in to fill the gap left by Spirit as passengers scrambled to find alternatives. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The New York-based carrier JetBlue will add 11 new routes to Fort Lauderdale in July, including a flight from BNA that will operate three times a day beginning July 9.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Avelo Airlines on Monday offered alternatives for 29 routes previously flown by Spirit, along with discounted fares for Spirit customers, while Frontier Airlines announced systemwide \u201drescue fare discounts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Spirit began operations at BNA in October\u00a02019, according to airport officials.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n
Tennessee aviation workers are among the\u00a017,000 employees who lost jobs in the Spirit collapse; however, the exact number is unclear.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officials from Nashville International Airport are urging Spirit Airlines passengers to contact other air carriers to explore rebooking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":258230,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[20372,20371,73952,24913,73953,28446,91281,73955,73954,249,251,250,3014,73957,111938,19324,8848,73956],"class_list":["post-258229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fort-lauderdale","tag-airline","tag-airlines","tag-airlines-of-the-united-states","tag-aviation","tag-aviation-companies","tag-aviation-industry","tag-bna","tag-civil-aviation","tag-commercial-aviation","tag-fort-lauderdale","tag-fort-lauderdale-headlines","tag-fort-lauderdale-news","tag-jetblue","tag-low-cost-carriers","tag-nashville-international-airport","tag-spirit-airlines","tag-transport","tag-transport-operators"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258229","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=258229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258229\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/258230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=258229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=258229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=258229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}