{"id":33839,"date":"2025-11-05T04:15:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:15:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33839\/"},"modified":"2025-11-05T04:15:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-05T04:15:11","slug":"spirit-scales-back-again-exits-five-more-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/33839\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Scales Back Again, Exits Five More Cities"},"content":{"rendered":"

Spirit is reshuffling its network for 2026, ending service at four U.S. airports along with an international destination.<\/p>\n

A Spirit spokesperson told AirlineGeeks the changes are part of broader efforts to \u201cbetter position the airline for the future\u201d and \u201calign with our smaller operating fleet<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

The carrier will discontinue service at Milwaukee, Wisconsin; Phoenix; Rochester, New York; and St. Louis, effective Jan. 8, 2026. Seasonal flights to Bucaramanga, Colombia, will end Jan. 13.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe apologize to our Guests for any inconvenience and will reach out to those with affected travel plans to notify them of their options, including a refund,\u201d the spokesperson added. \u201cThank you to our partners and Guests in these communities for their support over the years.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"SpiritA Spirit A320neo in Los Angeles (Photo: AirlineGeeks | William Derrickson) <\/p>\n

The latest cuts follow a series of recent airport exits<\/a> as Spirit continues to navigate its second Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing in less than a yea<\/a>r. Over the last several months, the airline has withdrawn from 11 airports.<\/p>\n

Florida Boost<\/p>\n

Even as the airline pares down its footprint, Spirit says it plans to expand flying in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where it will grow to 100 peak daily departures next year. The carrier is also increasing frequencies on more than 40 routes across its network.<\/p>\n

In the coming weeks, Spirit will launch three previously-announced new routes<\/a> from Fort Lauderdale \u2014 to Key West, Belize, and Grand Cayman \u2014 and will resume flights from Newark to Palm Beach and San Juan.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spirit is reshuffling its network for 2026, ending service at four U.S. airports along with an international destination.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33840,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-33839","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\/33839","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=33839"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33839\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33840"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33839"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33839"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33839"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}