Even if You Don't Fly Spirit, We’re All About to Pay For What Happened Overnight
Rogue Energy
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3.0 • 4.4K Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2026
⏱️ 17 minutes
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Summary
A shocking development overnight, ultra low cost carrier, Spirit Airlines, has completely shut down. Its website tells customers not to go to the airport, its customer service is shuttered and 17 thousand employees are waking up with no job. The airline said rising fuel costs were the final nail in its coffin, and despite an 11th hour possible bailout deal with President Trump, the airline said it had no choice but to “begin this wind-down.” The fear now, most experts believe this will lead to higher ticket prices across all airlines, without low fare competition from Spirit.
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| 0:00.0 | This is an IHeart podcast. |
| 0:02.3 | Guaranteed Human. |
| 0:06.0 | Hey there, folks. |
| 0:07.1 | It is Saturday, May 2nd, and your flight is canceled. |
| 0:11.6 | And your flight is canceled. |
| 0:13.2 | And your flight is canceled. |
| 0:14.8 | Everybody's flight is canceled. |
| 0:16.9 | If you are a spirit airline's customer, the airline overnight shut down. It's over. It's done. |
| 0:27.3 | And we should all be disappointed, no matter if you're a Spirit Airlines customer or not. And with that, welcome to this episode of Amy and T.J. Robs, they have a notice on their website telling folks |
| 0:38.0 | do not go to the airport if you're a Spirit Airlines customer. This is stunning. This is |
| 0:43.8 | stunning because think about it. It is May 2nd and you've got basically folks who have tickets |
| 0:50.7 | for spring getaways, summer vacation plans, tickets booked. |
| 0:56.1 | This is a surreal situation because there is no customer service in place. |
| 1:02.8 | So you have really no way of contacting the airline, trying to figure out what to do, |
| 1:08.1 | if there's any change you can make. |
| 1:10.4 | You are just S-O-L. |
| 1:12.9 | That is true. There is nothing to be done. We should say here at the top that you should be able |
| 1:17.4 | to get your money back. Spirit Airlines has already said that's not going to be an issue. So that |
| 1:22.6 | isn't going to be the problem, but the problem is, Robes, everything you just described, given the |
| 1:26.8 | timing and given where the industry is right now with the war, but the problem is, Robes, everything you just described, given the timing, |
| 1:33.5 | and given where the industry is right now with the war, quite frankly, and yes, they did tell us that gas prices played into this, but Robes is not a good sign for an industry and what happens now |
| 1:38.3 | in the busy season to all those people on Spirit are scrambling to go where, find somewhere |
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