{"id":59234,"date":"2025-11-24T20:28:11","date_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:28:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59234\/"},"modified":"2025-11-24T20:28:11","modified_gmt":"2025-11-24T20:28:11","slug":"spirit-begins-belize-flights-airlinegeeks-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/59234\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Begins Belize Flights | AirlineGeeks.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/airlinegeeks.com\/tag\/spirit-airlines\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Spirit\">Spirit<\/a> on Friday launched service between <a href=\"https:\/\/ir.spirit.com\/news\/news-details\/2025\/Now-Boarding-to-Belize-City-Spirit-Airlines-Launches-the-Only-Nonstop-Service-from-Fort-Lauderdale\/default.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Belize\">Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Belize<\/a> as it continues to navigate bankruptcy proceedings.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-low-cost carrier will operate the route three times weekly, on Mondays, Fridays, and Saturdays. Spirit now serves 24 international destinations from its base at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit has slashed routes and exited markets as it works to reduce its debt and streamline operations, but it continues to build up its presence in Fort Lauderdale, seeing the city as critical to its planned post-bankruptcy rebound.<\/p>\n<p>The airline launched flights from Fort Lauderdale to Key West on Nov. 6 and plans to start service to Grand Cayman on Dec. 4.<\/p>\n<p>Spirit declared bankruptcy for a second time in August. It is now in the process of canceling aircraft leases, reworking its flight schedule, and <a href=\"https:\/\/airlinegeeks.com\/2025\/11\/19\/spirit-pilots-set-for-8-pay-cut\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" title=\"negotiating reduced pay for air crews\">negotiating reduced pay for air crews<\/a> in an attempt to contain spending.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spirit on Friday launched service between Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Belize as it continues to navigate bankruptcy proceedings.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59235,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[249,251,250],"class_list":["post-59234","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\/59234","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=59234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59234\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59235"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}