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Ten people have been hospitalized after a Spirit Airlines flight was forced to make an emergency landing in Jacksonville, Florida due to a fire inside the cabin, WTLV reports. Spirit Airlines flight 259 departed from Dallas around 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday bound for Orlando, but after the fire broke out the plane had to land at Jacksonville […]
Over the weekend, TMZ posted footage of Flavor Flav cursing out a Spirit Airlines agent at Harry Reid International Airport in Las Vegas. Sources told the outlet the Public Enemy rapper was preoccupied when the flight to Detroit started boarding, as he was working on his laptop and taking phone calls at the gate. When he […]
Spirit Airlines has suspended one of its agents after an altercation with a woman over seating issues at Dallas-Fort Worth Airport, local Dallas news outlet KDFW reports. The confrontation, which was caught on video, transpired on Thursday and began when a woman departed her plane after realizing there wasn’t a seat for her. She became uncooperative after the Spirit employee told […]
JetBlue agreed to buy Spirit Airlines on Thursday for a reported $3.8 billion. The Associated Press reports the deal faces a significant hurdle in receiving approval from antitrust regulators in the Biden administration who may be wary of allowing an already limited number of airline options in the United States to shrink even further. A merger would make JetBlue the nation’s fifth-largest airline company […]
A Spirit Airlines plane briefly caught on fire after landing at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport Sunday morning, The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reports. Spirit spokesperson Erik Hofmeyer said one of the brakes on the aircraft, arriving from Tampa, got overheated while on the tarmac, causing the tires to go up in flames. After first responders managed to quell the fire, the […]
The two largest discount airlines in the U.S. are merging, as Frontier and Spirit Airlines have agreed to a deal valued at $6.6 billion. Becoming what CNBC is calling the fifth-largest airline in the U.S., both airline boards approved the deal over the weekend. Frontier Airlines has a 51.5 percent controlling stake, while Spirit will control the remaining 48.5 percent. This marks […]
In a video circulating on social media, Spirit Airlines staff are seen kicking a young family off a flight because their child was not wearing a mask while eating. The clip first started appearing on Twitter and Instagram on Monday, showing how the young Jewish family responded after they were informed they were “non-compliant” with […]
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