Overview

• Service exits take effect the week of Oct. 2 and include Oakland, San Jose and Sacramento in Northern California, plus San Diego, Portland, Salt Lake City and smaller cities such as Albuquerque, Birmingham, Boise, Chattanooga and Columbia; a planned Macon launch is canceled.
• United will add flights to 15 cities starting Jan. 6, including new Newark routes to Columbia and Chattanooga and more frequencies to Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Las Vegas, Houston, Chicago and Los Angeles, explicitly positioned as options if Spirit stops operating.
• Frontier announced 20 new routes targeting overlapping Spirit markets, with expansions from hubs like Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, Baltimore, Houston, Charlotte and Dallas to capture price‑sensitive travelers.
• A bankruptcy court order allows Spirit to keep flying and honor tickets, credits and loyalty points during restructuring, and customers on canceled routes are being offered refunds.
• The retrenchment follows nearly $257 million in losses since March and a going‑concern warning; October cuts represent about 3.9% of seats, with Las Vegas losing eight nonstop routes as the airline also pares its fleet and staffing.