allowing stranded Spirit passengers<\/a> to rebook airlines at capped or discounted prices. The airline reportedly charged an average of $200 for a one-way ticket.<\/p>\n\u201cWe\u2019ve activated our airline partners to ensure passengers are not stranded, communities maintain route access, fares do not skyrocket, and Spirit\u2019s workforce is connected to new job opportunities,\u201d Duffy said.<\/p>\n
Participating airlines include JetBlue, Southwest, Delta, and United, which will be making the reduced prices available for various time periods. <\/p>\n
JetBlue\u2019s and Southwest\u2019s offers both lasts for 72 hours, although rebookings with the latter must be made at the airport counter.<\/p>\n
U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy argued against a $500 million bailout for Spirit as he felt it counterproductive to \u201cput good money after bad.\u201d AFP via Getty Images<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, Delta\u2019s deal is good for five days while United\u2019s is valid for a whopping two weeks. Frontier is also offering discounts for the next week.<\/p>\n
One of the better offers comes courtesy of Allegiant Airlines, which pledges to freeze prices on routes that overlap with Spirit.<\/p>\n
It will also offer 50% off of base fares through May 10.<\/p>\n
It\u2019s not just displaced Spirit customers who are being offered a safety net. <\/p>\n
Duffy declared that the airlines are working to help find jobs for the thousands of Spirit employees who were displaced by the shutdown.<\/p>\n
Spirit\u2019s final trip was Flight 1833 which travelled from Detroit to Dallas, touching down early Saturday morning just after midnight. <\/p>\n
The company X bid farewell to customers in an X post at 2:35 am Saturday. <\/p>\n
\u00a0\u201cWe are proud of the impact of our ultra-low-cost model on the industry for the last 33 years and had hoped to serve our Guests for many years to come,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Does its Spirit live on for stranded travelers? Spirit Airlines shutdown has resulted in the cancellation of dozens…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":217871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[3346,85933,128,232,9,24,7607,63,81884,129,131,130,608,956],"class_list":["post-217870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-air-travel","tag-bailouts","tag-bronx","tag-lifestyle","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-newark","tag-nyc","tag-spirit-airlines","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news","tag-transportation","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217870","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=217870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}