{"id":217508,"date":"2026-05-02T07:51:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217508\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T07:51:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T07:51:08","slug":"spirit-airlines-says-its-going-out-of-business-ending-operations-immediately","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/217508\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines says it\u2019s going out of business ending operations immediately"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturday that it <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2026\/05\/01\/business\/spirit-airlines-preparing-to-shut-down-after-failing-to-secure-500m-bailout-from-trump-admin\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">has gone out of business<\/a> after 34 years.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-low cost airline that once operated hundreds of daily flights on its bright yellow planes and employed about 17,000 people said it had \u201cstarted an orderly wind-down of our operations, effective immediately.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"39261622\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/hollywood-international-airport-fort-lauderdale-126245870.jpg\" alt=\"A yellow Spirit Airlines flight arrives at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.\" class=\"wp-image-39261622\"  \/>Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced Saturday that it has gone out of business after 34 years. REUTERS<\/p>\n<p>The airline said all flights have been cancelled and customer service is no longer available.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud of the impact of our ultra-low-cost model on the industry over the last 34 years and had hoped to serve our guests for many years to come,\u201d the announcement said.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines, an impish upstart that shook the industry with its irreverent ads and deep discount fares, announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217509,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[10997,288,34802,9,11,10,81884],"class_list":["post-217508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-airlines","tag-business","tag-companies","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-spirit-airlines"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}