{"id":259437,"date":"2026-05-05T16:58:09","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259437\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T16:58:09","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T16:58:09","slug":"spirit-airlines-reports-4800-job-cuts-in-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/259437\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines reports 4,800 job cuts in Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text text--small text--normal text--primary\">Published:\u00a0May 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM<\/p>\n<p>Spirit Airlines job cuts include 3,200 in South Florida<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">HOLLYWOOD, Fla.  \u2014 Spirit Airlines reported laying off 4,800 people in Florida, including 3,200 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, records show on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The Dania Beach-based company filed an official layoff notice with the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridajobs.org\/Reemployment-Assistance-Service-Center\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.floridajobs.org\/Reemployment-Assistance-Service-Center\">FloridaCommerce<\/a>, the state\u2019s lead agency for workforce. It included cuts at both the Miami and Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood international airports. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The state agency hosted events on <a href=\"https:\/\/floridajobs.org\/news-center\/DEO-Press\/2026\/05\/04\/floridacommerce-announces-additional-rapid-response-event-in-partnership-with-careersource-broward-for-displaced-spirit-airlines-employees\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/floridajobs.org\/news-center\/DEO-Press\/2026\/05\/04\/floridacommerce-announces-additional-rapid-response-event-in-partnership-with-careersource-broward-for-displaced-spirit-airlines-employees\">Monday<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/floridajobs.org\/news-center\/DEO-Press\/2026\/05\/04\/floridacommerce-announces-additional-rapid-response-event-in-partnership-with-careersource-broward-for-displaced-spirit-airlines-employees\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/floridajobs.org\/news-center\/DEO-Press\/2026\/05\/04\/floridacommerce-announces-additional-rapid-response-event-in-partnership-with-careersource-broward-for-displaced-spirit-airlines-employees\">Tuesday<\/a> at the CareerSource Broward South Center at 7550 Davie Road in Hollywood. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe didn\u2019t intentionally sell any tickets thinking we weren\u2019t going to be here,\u201d Dave Davis, the Spirit Airlines chief executive officer, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/airlines\/spirits-ceo-on-the-airlines-last-days-155c51c4\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/business\/airlines\/spirits-ceo-on-the-airlines-last-days-155c51c4\">The Wall Street Journal<\/a> on Monday. \u201cWe thought we were going to get the liquidity we needed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Spirit Airlines suffered more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020, and filed for bankruptcy in 2024 and 2025 before a last-minute $500 million government bailout proposal failed. Spirit Airlines flights were grounded by 3 a.m. on Saturday. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy announced the airline\u2019s shutdown hours later. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">\u201cWe have 18,000 people that live in this country that are great people and great employees,\u201d President Donald Trump said about Spirit Airlines employees <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/videos\/president-trump-delivers-remarks-apr-23-2026\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/videos\/president-trump-delivers-remarks-apr-23-2026\/\">on April 23<\/a> at the White House.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Spirit Airlines employees\u2019 health insurance ended on Saturday. <a href=\"https:\/\/news.aa.com\/news\/news-details\/2026\/American-Airlines-takes-action-to-support-Spirit-Airlines-customers-and-team-members-CORP-OTH-05\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/news.aa.com\/news\/news-details\/2026\/American-Airlines-takes-action-to-support-Spirit-Airlines-customers-and-team-members-CORP-OTH-05\/\">American Airlines<\/a> and JetBlue Airways offered to help Spirit Airlines pilots and flight attendants who were stranded over the weekend. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Trump and Duffy criticized former President Joe Biden\u2019s administration for blocking the $3.8 billion sale of Spirit Airlines to JetBlue in 2024. At FLL, on Monday, JetBlue announced 11 additional locations. <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related records<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/MVSSW4SAPJFENKLQXHG5BAWDCU.png\"  width=\"800\" height=\"555\"\/>Spirit Airlines layoff notice in Florida <\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related link: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spiritrestructuring.com\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.spiritrestructuring.com\/\">Spirit Airlines launches restructuring page<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">Related stories<\/p>\n<p>Resources<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-article-body__copyright\">Copyright 2026 by WPLG Local10.com &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Linnie Supall\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-prod-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/CANLLYSXDJBXDMDOXMBEIDTX.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Linnie Supall<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">Linnie Supall is an Emmy nominated and award-winning journalist.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" alt=\"Andrea Torres\" class=\"c-image\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/https:\/\/author-service-images-sandbox-us-east-1.publishing.aws.arc.pub\/wplginc\/83a8effa-fc87-4940-96.jpeg\"  width=\"100\" height=\"100\"\/>Andrea Torres<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph b-author-bio__author-description\">The Emmy Award-winning journalist joined the Local 10 News team in 2013. She wrote for the Miami Herald for more than 9 years and won a Green Eyeshade Award.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published:\u00a0May 5, 2026 at 12:34 PM Spirit Airlines job cuts include 3,200 in South Florida HOLLYWOOD, Fla. \u2014&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259438,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[28,30,29],"class_list":["post-259437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259437","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=259437"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259437\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259438"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}