Overview

• Spirit won bankruptcy court approval on Sept. 3 to keep operating as it re-enters Chapter 11.
• All flights will end the week of Oct. 2 in Albuquerque, Birmingham, Boise, Chattanooga, Columbia (SC), Oakland, Portland (OR), Sacramento, Salt Lake City, San Diego and San Jose, and the planned Macon, Georgia launch is canceled.
• The carrier says the network will be redesigned to concentrate capacity in key focus cities as it responds to weak leisure demand, Pratt & Whitney engine reliability issues and recent AerCap lease terminations.
• Cost measures include furloughing about 270 pilots starting Nov. 1 and downgrading roughly 140 captains to first officers on Oct. 1; affected passengers on canceled routes are eligible for refunds.
• Competitors are moving to capture displaced demand: United will add routes and frequencies starting Jan. 6, 2026, including new Newark–Columbia and Newark–Chattanooga service, and Frontier unveiled 20 new overlapping routes last week.