Commercial Airline (Ultra-Low-Cost Carrier)
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Ceased operations May 2, 2026
Roughly 1.8 million Spirit Airlines passengers woke up on May 2, 2026 to find their tickets worthless. At 3:00 a.m. Eastern Time, the eighth-largest US carrier shut down for good, told customers to stay home from the airport, and laid off about 17,000 employees and contractors. The trigger was a creditor group that walked away from a $500 million rescue package the Trump administration had been brokering.
Updated May 31
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