Spirit Airlines, the pioneering discount airline that shook up the budget travel business, is shutting down its operations. Its demise has stranded thousands of passengers who have to adjust plans and millions who have tickets for future dates — Spirit canceled all flights, shut down its customer service and instructed customers not to go to the airport. Customers with Spirit tickets will be issued refunds, and they have been instructed to rebook travel on other carriers. The decision will put 17,000 workers out of a job, including 14,000 Spirit employees and thousands of contractors and other people whose jobs depend on Spirit. Eliminating the airline’s flights may also result in higher fares across the entire US airline industry. 0:00 Spirit Airlines halts all flights, begins to shut down operations 0:34 Air traffic controllers wish Spirit pilots well 1:14 CNN correspondent Gloria Pazmino reports from New York's LaGuardia Airport 5:49 ThePointsGuy aviation reporter Sean Cudahy on how travelers can get home and pursue refunds 10:27 Gloria Pazmino speaks with frustrated passengers Watch more CNN here: https://cnn.it/4kh5RPe #SpiritAirlines #Travel #News
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"We want a business man as president" they said. 🙄
17,000 people losing their jobs in 2026 is a goddamn tragedy…
weird, thought we won the Iran war and prices are going down?
Without competition from Spirit you can expect the other airlines to increase prices.
My heart goes out to the employees. Best of luck to them all.
Even if you’ve never flown Spirit, this is a negative because your airline can now raise their prices more.
Sad to see so many people lose their job.
Trump has successfully bankrupted and closed another company! Thank you for your attention to this matter!
Losing your job in this economic climate is a real curse. I know cause I’m unemployed.
That's terrible!!!! 17,000 workers... God be with them! 🙏🏾
Air travel will be more expensive without competitions.
If this is "winning", I would rather just LOSE
17,000 employees losing their jobs on such a short notice is devastating. Life really can change in the snap of a finger🙏
Something tells me the Jobs market statistics will not show this in their next report.
Oh we though the economy was hot, like never before
Are we great yet?
I see Trump is keeping the economy strong He couldn't run a bath without flood damage
Sorry to hear this for the 17K workers!!
17k people out of a job is wild
I used to talk smack about Spirit Airlines, but this is sad to see. Prayers up for those 17k people unemployed.