The low-cost airline announced it was going out of business last week<\/a> as Spirit canceled flights, stranding passengers, and laid off thousands of workers abruptly.<\/p>\n The WARN notices don\u2019t provide details on the employees\u2019 positions, but the layoffs are immediate.<\/p>\n \u201cWe regret that we are not able to give you more notice of your layoff,\u201d Spirit Human Resources Vice President Suzanne Solon wrote in the WARN notice filing<\/a>.<\/p>\n The company had been trying to negotiate a buyout with President Donald Trump\u2019s administration to save the airline. Spirit blamed \u201crecent dramatic and sustained deterioration in business conditions\u201d in explaining why it was forced to close.<\/p>\n \u201cThese conditions \u2014 including war in the middle east and a massive run up in fuel prices that will cost US airlines billions of dollars this year \u2014 were not foreseeable by the Company, and developed with a speed and severity that precluded the Company from giving earlier notice as we fought to save Spirit,\u201d Solon wrote in the WARN filing.<\/p>\n To help displaced workers find jobs<\/a>, FloridaCommerce, the state\u2019s economic development bureau, is hosting an event 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. Wednesday at the CareerSource Central Florida<\/a> Southeast Orange Career Center, 5784 Semoran Blvd. in Orlando.<\/p>\n Spirit filed the WARN notices to disclose mass layoffs at its Florida operations in a state where tourism is king and home to some of the country\u2019s busiest airports.<\/p>\n Some officials are voicing concerns<\/a> about Florida\u2019s employment numbers even before the Spirit layoffs.<\/p>\n \u201cFlorida\u2019s jobs numbers continue to get worse. Unemployment shot up to 4.7% \u2014 higher than the national average. Florida lost almost 38K jobs year over year in March,\u201d former Governor and current U.S. Sen.\u00a0Rick Scott<\/a> wrote on social media last week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The collapse of Spirit Airlines is costing more than 4,000 Floridians their jobs, according to new state filings.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259386,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29,1771,1063,3847,19324],"class_list":["post-259385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fort-lauderdale-hollywood-international-airport","tag-miami-international-airport","tag-orlando-international-airport","tag-spirit-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259385","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=259385"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259385\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259386"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/728x90_Static-1.jpg\")
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