Finding a Spirit Airlines flight seems much more difficult this summer.
According to Cirium data, an aeronautical analysis company, the budget airline has planned 12,000 less flights in May and June compared to the same period last year – a drop of around 24%.
The research of Deutsche Bank analysts grants the June decline for Spirit’s domestic flights in more than 27.5%.
However, only four airports are no longer served. Manchester, New Hampshire, the only one in the United States, had only seven flights planned during the period last year. Two of the airports are in Haiti, where several airlines have stopped flying after a spiritual plane was shot dead last November.
However, some cities have faced huge decreases in service since May and June 2024.
Albuquerque, New Mexico and Boisse, Idaho, saw their spiritual flights scheduled to drop by 84%, only 18 of 111 and 115, respectively.
Flights from Portland, Oregon, have more than divided by two, from 357 to 124. The Boston service increased from 1,272 to 710.
The only three airports to lose more than 1,000 flights – Fort Lauderdale, Las Vegas and Orlando – have between 20.5% and 28% less spiritual flights than last year.
The cuts come as the mind continues its turnaround.
He filed a request for protection of chapter 11 last November when he worked to restructure his debt and his commercial model, before leaving bankruptcy last month.
Last Thursday, Spirit announced that Dave Davis, the former president and financial director of Sun Country Airlines, would be his new CEO.
Budget airlines have had difficult time from the pandemic, because higher costs and overcapacity have forced them to rethink their business models.
Spirit, Frontier and Southwest have all added premium seats options.
They are now also faced with a potential slowdown in travel demand at all levels due to the economic uncertainty of Donald Trump’s tariff plans.
Travel is generally one of the first things that people can cut when the stock market ropes are tightening, which saw air stocks become particularly volatile in the month.
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