Spirit Airlines will add two southeast U.S. cities to its map in June, including starting service from Columbia Metropolitan Airport (CAE) in South Carolina.
As it prepares to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Spirit widened its annual losses in 2024 and battled a significant hike in its unit costs.
Frontier Airlines CEO Barry Biffle believes the ULCC is well-positioned to seize opportunities in the recovery of non-premium seats in the U.S. market.
U.S. LCCs Allegiant Air and JetBlue Airways saw challenges while Spirit Airlines continued to navigate significant financial and operational difficulties.
Spirit Airlines has rejected Frontier's third acquisition offer, concluding that it would deliver less in value than its standalone restructuring plan.
Eighteen months on from Pratt & Whitney announcing that hundreds of GTF engines would have to be pulled from service to undergo enhanced inspections, airlines are still suffering.
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Frontier has made another bid for Spirit Airlines, but the offer failed to sway the South Florida-based ULCC as it proceeds through a Chapter 11 restructuring.
The cuts were implemented in “various departments” across the company, and the airline still expects to emerge from a streamlined chapter 11 process in Q1 2025.
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After entering Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, Spirit released its 2024 Q3 results, with net losses nearly doubling and “substantial doubt” about the future.
