Spirit Airlines Is Cutting Routes From New York City, Miami, Los Angeles, and More

The budget carrier cut a dozen routes this week.

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Spirit Airlines cut a dozen routes this week, including several seasonal spring break flights, as the airline appeared to reject yet another merger attempt from fellow budget carrier Frontier Airlines.

Spirit’s route cuts include flights from across the country ranging from Atlanta and New York to California, Miami, and beyond, the airline confirmed to Travel + Leisure. Of those, five were flights Spirit said it operated as spring break-specific routes. 

“We routinely evaluate our network and make adjustments to support the company's business strategy based on current market and operating conditions,” a Spirit spokesperson said in a statement shared with T+L. “As part of this process, we adjusted our upcoming schedule to focus on our strongest performing routes in alignment with our current fleet size.”

The route cuts include: 

• Atlanta to New York
• Burbank to Oakland
• Burbank to San Jose
• Indianapolis to Fort Myers (a spring break seasonal route)
• Los Angeles to Reno
• Los Angeles to Salt Lake City
• Los Angeles to San Jose
• Miami to Minneapolis-St. Paul (a spring break seasonal route)
• Miami to Raleigh-Durham (a spring break seasonal route)
• New Orleans to San Juan, Puerto Rico
• New York to New Orleans (a spring break seasonal route)
• New York to West Palm Beach (a spring break seasonal route)

While the airline is cutting several routes, Spirit said it will also launch a new flight between Nashville and Columbus, Ohio, in the spring.

These latest cuts come after the low-cost airline similarly ended dozens of routes in the fall just before it filed for bankruptcy to restructure. Before that, a federal judge had blocked Spirit’s planned merger with JetBlue, and while the airline was reportedly in talks with fellow budget carrier Frontier to merge, nothing came of it.

On Wednesday, Frontier told T+L it once again “made a compelling proposal” to merge with Spirit with Frontier’s CEO Barry Biffle explaining a combined airline “would be positioned to offer more options and deeper savings, as well as an enhanced travel experience with more reliable service.”

However, a Spirit filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) on Wednesday said the company decided the “Proposal would deliver less in value to the Company’s stakeholders than what was contemplated by the Company’s existing Plan” and that Spirit “determined, barring new developments, not to further delay its planned emergence from Chapter 11.”