{"id":358345,"date":"2026-01-30T07:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/death-of-budget-airlines-frontier-spirit-cut-30000-flights\/"},"modified":"2026-01-30T07:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T21:00:18","slug":"death-of-budget-airlines-frontier-spirit-cut-30000-flights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=358345","title":{"rendered":"Death Of Budget Airlines? Frontier &amp; Spirit Cut 30,000 Flights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The woes of <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"255967\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/frontier-airlines\/\"  >Frontier<\/a><\/span> and <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<\/a><\/span> are comprehensive and renowned. There is no need to rehash all that here. One overall consequence is that their number of flights has fallen substantially year-over-year. This is, in part, to refocus on where they believe they have a better chance of winning. It&#8217;s the classic case of the paradoxical &#8216;shrinking to grow&#8217;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of flights vanish from schedules as two airlines grapple with a myriad of challenges. Find out what has been cut.<\/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":[396,475,413,406,15477,581,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-358345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-frontier-airlines","category-routes","category-sf-routes-analysis","category-spirit-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358345","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=358345"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358345\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":358346,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358345\/revisions\/358346"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=358345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=358345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=358345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}