Aug
22
2025
Spirit Airlines has hired PJT Partners to help “explore strategic alternatives.”
Spirit Airlines Hires Advisors As Second Bankruptcy Looms 5 Months After Exit
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Spirit Airlines Passenger Shouts ‘We Don’t Teach Hate’ — Then Erupts In Racist Tirade
Aug
17
2025
A Spirit Airlines passenger delivered a racist rant that ironically started off, “We Don’t Teach Hate In Our House…” Video is going viral in social media.
‘Don’t Be Shy About Pulling Something From The Trash’: Flight Attendants Warned As Spirit Airlines Faces Collapse
Aug
13
2025
Spirit Airlines warns it may go out of business within a year. They emerged from bankruptcy but aren’t doing much differently. They’re losing tremendous amounts of cash, and don’t have a lot left. And if something doesn’t change quickly, they can’t last. The airline’s credit card processor appears to be squeezing them, based on an SEC filing, and as they renew their agreement they’re going to have to post more cash – cash they don’t have – as a cushion against chargebacks in case they’re unable to honor flights for the tickets that they sell. And so they’re looking at the sale of additional assets like planes, real estate and gates and “elimination of certain fixed costs.” They could make it. And they’re trying to reassure anxious employees while the AFA-CWA flight attendants union is…
Spirit Airlines Admits Its Turnaround Has Failed—Warns It May Not Survive A Year
Aug
11
2025
Spirit Airlines just issued a warning in its latest SEC filing that they may not last 12 months as a going concern.
(HT: Enilria)
Spirit Airlines Just Became More Reliable Than Delta—Here’s Why
Jul
09
2025
Delta Air Lines dropped to number three in reliability among North American carriers in June, according to data from aviation analytics company Cirium.
“Catch Me If You Can” In Real Life: Florida Man Hacks Spirit Airlines To Score 120 Free Flights Posing As Pilot & Flight Attendant
Jun
11
2025
Tiron Alexander claimed to be employed as a flight attendant or pilot with seven different airlines to nonrev on several airlines, using 30 fraudulent sets of credentials and stolen badge numbers from actual airline employees. He booked flights through the Spirit Airlines employee travel portal.
Passenger Misses Spirit Flight, Calls Bomb Threat To Bring It Back—Idiot Used His Own Phone, FBI Arrives
Jun
10
2025
As if Spirit Airlines isn’t having enough time after emerging from bankruptcy – they had a -26% margin last quarter – on June 5 a passenger made a bomb threat in order to delay a plane. He was mad about missing the Detroit – Los Angeles flight.
She Paid For Spirit’s ‘Big Front Seat’—It Came With A Big Roach, Then Another
May
12
2025
Video of roaches on Spirit Airlines is going viral, with around 4 million views in the first 24 hours since being posted to Twitter.
‘Only Three Of You Get Oxygen Masks’—Spirit Flight Attendant Quizzes The Cabin, Tells Parents To Pick A Child
Apr
12
2025
Spirit Airlines doesn’t have video monitors in the cabin, let alone seat back entertainment screens, so flight attendants do their safety briefing live. This Spirit flight attendant turns it into first a quiz and then a comedy routine.
Spirit CEO Gone, Committee Now Leads Airline Bleeding Millions Every Day
Apr
07
2025
There is no successor named – instead there will be an “Office of the President” management-by-committee approach comprised of CFO Fred Cromer, COO John Bendoraitis, and General Counsel Thomas Canfield. No one person is in charge of this sinking ship.
