{"id":353957,"date":"2026-01-23T08:00:49","date_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/castlelake-save-spirit-or-buy-it-for-spare-parts\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T08:00:49","modified_gmt":"2026-01-22T22:00:49","slug":"would-castlelake-save-spirit-or-just-buy-it-for-spare-parts-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=353957","title":{"rendered":"Would Castlelake Save Spirit Or Just Buy It For Spare Parts?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"123427\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/spirit-airlines\/\"  >Spirit Airlines<\/a><\/span>, a US-based ultra-low-fare carrier that has been saddled with mounting losses and multiple Chapter 11 bankruptcies in under a year, is now reportedly in talks with alternative investment manager Castlelake. These discussions come after Spirit&#8217;s most recent merger negotiations with rival low-cost airline Frontier Airlines failed to yield any kind of agreement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This proposed acquisition has a number of potential implications for Spirit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[396,476,1327,581,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-353957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-low-cost-airline","category-spirit-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353957","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=353957"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353957\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":354025,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353957\/revisions\/354025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=353957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=353957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=353957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}