This has been reported as US Internal news, but Spirit did service Mexico, the Caribbean and other places in Central and South America.

Their closure has a wide impact.

Sorta of a blind shot, but does anyone here know where to look for their asset liquidation & auctions?

I can't afford an A320 but I'm sure they have some good tools, equipment, servers, etc.

bye bye~! let this happen to the rest too. i hope the airline industry crashes and has to be nationalized or some shit idk. better than this. anything would be better than the current mess we have.

If you were willing to play the game, Spirit was an effective way to fly cheap. I have a backpack that's the maximum size permitted for "personal item", never carried luggage to check in and brought my own snacks and drinks.

The leg space was atrocious but I'd get their emails to bid on exit row seats, bid the lowest amount ($5-$15) and often win.

I had enough points for a free one-way flight, but alas.

Cant wait for all the planes to become mobile spirit Halloweens

Okay, that's kind of funny. Because I've flown Spirit Air, and fuck Spirit Air (the seats are deliberately designed to be more uncomfortable than usual).

But also, it's kinda sad because it disproportionally impacts people with lower income who need to travel on a budget.

But also, where can I buy their planes? I don't have any money, or a place to park them. I'm just curious...

Now you can be a proud owner of Spirit.

https://letsbuyspirit.com/

People compare them to Ryanair in Europe but that’s a gross mischaracterisation.

Ryanair is a notorious fuel hedger, locking in prices 12+ months in advance. They also have a craptonne of cash balance that Spirit never built up, so they are completely differently positioned to handle the fuel price shock in 2026.

Unions play a big part as well - in the US, there was a single Union negotiation on behalf of crew but Ryanair didn’t even recognise unions until 2017 and they still have a lot of national unions that they can pick and choose from. While I abhor Ryanair’s anti-union stance it does leave them very well positioned for survival compared to Spirit.

Ryanair have been overthrowing a lot of national carriers that had a LOT of inefficiency in it, whereas Spirit were fighting against large, federal/international carriers with much more heft to them, both to accept price wars and the handle connecting flights (something Europeans generally loathe and Americans accept). It means a lot of the international flights were fed by the airlines’ own routes, rather than Spirit.

Overall, completely different market place. Man, it would be interesting to see Ryanair enter the US.

Never heard of Spirit Airlines until yesterday. Seems people liked it due to the cheap flights.

Here in Europe we have Ryanair for that, but I always feel bad when the only decent price I can find is from Ryanair; they treat their employees like disposable garbage. They were banned from landing in Kastrup for some time because of this.

Usually if I have to pay a little extra to avoid Ryanair, I'll do it. I hope Spirit Airlines has a better reputation.

Did anyone see that guy who snapped his skateboard in half so it would fit in the carry-on, so he could avoid paying the 89 dollar charge? It got viral enough to gain Tony Hawk's attention

After all these years, gas prices are what finally does them in...

Gave up the ghost

there is guys, we lost the spirit, the rest of the economy goes next

I hate corporations as a baseline.

That being said, Spirit was cheap and acceptable to me. The customer service was the same I experienced in the "nicer" airlines because they only start caring about you when you aren't the low class tickets. Sometimes it was a little entertaining because it felt like "NYC Subway in the sky" in regards to weirdos taking the flights, but nobody cared or judged, maybe I was one of them. You were there because you had to be, and they got you where you needed to go. They were the only airline I used to send my son back and forth to his mom's for vacations, and it was always straight-forward and simple.

Also the Black on Yellow color scheme is nice.

They spent the last several years trying to keep this from happening but just couldn't make it happen in the end. I guess you could say, the spirit was willing....