{"id":260348,"date":"2026-05-06T09:05:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:05:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260348\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T09:05:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T09:05:18","slug":"more-than-3200-south-florida-jobs-lost-after-spirit-airlines-shutdown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/260348\/","title":{"rendered":"More than 3,200 South Florida jobs lost after Spirit Airlines shutdown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We know now how many South Floridians have lost jobs because of the shutdown of Spirit Airlines.<\/p>\n<p>More than 3,200 jobs have been eliminated across three Spirit locations in the region. Most of the affected jobs, just over 2,500, were employees based at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Another 550 jobs were cut from Spirit\u2019s Dania Beach headquarters in Broward County.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 180 people laid off had worked at Spirit\u2019s operations at Miami International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>These layoffs are in addition to 1,600 Spirit jobs based in Orlando.<\/p>\n<p>READ MORE: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/business\/2026-05-05\/spirit-fort-lauderdale-hollywood-airport-fll\" class=\"Link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8216;Devastating blow&#8217;: Life without Spirit at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This is a News In Brief report. Visit <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wlrn.org\/\" class=\"Link\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">WLRN News<\/a> for in-depth reporting from South Florida and Florida news.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"We know now how many South Floridians have lost jobs because of the shutdown of Spirit Airlines. More&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":260349,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-260348","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\/260348","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=260348"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/260348\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/260349"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=260348"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=260348"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=260348"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}