Overview

• The furloughs affect roughly one-third of Spirit’s 5,200 flight attendants and take effect on Dec. 1, 2025.
• Voluntary furloughs of six or twelve months open Nov. 1, with any remaining cuts implemented by inverse seniority, the AFA-CWA said.
• Spirit is in its second Chapter 11 in less than a year and has recently delisted from the New York Stock Exchange.
• Management has already furloughed hundreds of pilots and is seeking about $100 million in annual pilot cost concessions, according to the pilots’ union.
• The carrier is shrinking its network by roughly 25% in November, exiting about a dozen U.S. cities, and is in talks with lessors as it evaluates fleet size.