Spirit Airlines shuts down after Trump’s war on Iran doubled jet fuel prices

Spirit Airlines planes are parked connected the tarmac astatine the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport connected May 02, 2026 successful Fort Lauderdale, Florida. | Getty Images

The ultra-low-cost aerial bearer Spirit Airlines unopen down operations aft 34 years successful concern and canceled each flights astatine 3AM ET connected Saturday morning. Its website present redirects to spiritrestructuring.com, instructing fliers not to spell to airports, with aerial postulation power records capturing controllers and pilots signing disconnected to each other arsenic its past flights came successful for landings aft the shutdown was announced.

A connection connected its website said that for radical who purchased tickets directly, "Refunds for tickets purchased by recognition paper and debit paper person been issued, and volition beryllium processed by …

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