Spirit Airways will finish service to 11 cities in October because it begins the arduous work of overhauling its route map in chapter.
The Dania Seashore, Fla.-based airline will finish service to the next cities through the week of Oct. 2, 2025, a spokesperson confirmed:
- Albuquerque Worldwide Sunport (ABQ) in New Mexico
- Birmingham-Shuttlesworth Worldwide Airport (BHM) in Alabama
- Boise Airport (BOI)
- Chattanooga Metropolitan Airport (CHA) in Tennessee
- Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) in South Carolina
- Oakland San Francisco Bay Airport (OAK)
- Portland Worldwide Airport (PDX) in Oregon
- Sacramento Worldwide Airport (SMF)
- Salt Lake Metropolis Worldwide Airport (SLC)
- San Diego Worldwide Airport (SAN)
- San Jose Mineta Worldwide Airport (SJC) in California
Spirit additionally suspended plans so as to add Center Georgia Regional Airport (MCN) in Macon, Georgia, to its map on Oct. 16.
The cuts come days after Spirit filed for its second Chapter 11 chapter restructuring in lower than a yr. The airline plans to shed planes, shrink its community and lower prices within the hopes of returning to profitability.
“Spirit is redesigning its community to focus its flying on key markets to supply extra locations, frequencies and enhanced connectivity in sure of its focus cities, whereas concurrently decreasing its presence in sure different cities,” Fred Cromer, chief monetary officer of Spirit, mentioned in an announcement filed with the court docket on Sunday.
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Robert Milton, chairman of Spirit’s board of administrators, instructed The Wall Road Journal that the service plans to refocus its map on key airports, together with Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Worldwide Airport (FLL), Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport (DTW) and Orlando Worldwide Airport (MCO).
The 12 airports lower from Spirit’s map in October characterize 3.9% of the airline’s whole seats that month, schedule knowledge from aviation analytics agency Cirium exhibits.
Las Vegas’ Harry Reid Worldwide Airport (LAS) will lose essentially the most routes with the cuts, saying goodbye to eight nonstops, schedules present. FLL will lose 4 routes.
Many business analysts count on additional cuts at Spirit because it “considerably,” as Cromer put it, shrinks its fleet.
The airline operated 214 Airbus A320-family plane when it filed for chapter on Aug. 28. Nevertheless, solely round 157 planes are in service, Cromer mentioned.
Passengers booked on a canceled flight can be entitled to a refund below U.S. Division of Transportation coverage.
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