{"id":412994,"date":"2026-04-25T07:41:38","date_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:41:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/president-considers-buying-spirit-airlines-price-right\/"},"modified":"2026-04-25T07:41:38","modified_gmt":"2026-04-24T21:41:38","slug":"trump-owned-president-considers-buying-spirit-airlines-himself-if-the-price-is-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=412994","title":{"rendered":"Trump-Owned? President Considers Buying Spirit Airlines Himself If \u2018The Price Is Right\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Floridian ultra-low-cost carrier <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> may have a new investor on board, with the United States president, <span class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\" data-id=\"136074\"style=\";  ;\" class=\"display-card-hyperlink display-card-hyperlink-no-vignette\"><a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/tag\/donald-trump\/\"  >Donald Trump<\/a><\/span>, commenting on Thursday that he would consider purchasing the airline if the price was right. Spirit has faced challenging headwinds for years, as it faces continued financial troubles, with calls<a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spirit-airlines-shut-down-weeks-end-bankruptcy-recovery-regresses\/\" > that the airline could fold in weeks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Could the future of Spirit Airlines lie in the hands of President Trump?<\/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":[396,476,7862,20152,581,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-412994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-donald-trump","category-for-sale","category-spirit-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412994","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=412994"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412994\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":413140,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/412994\/revisions\/413140"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=412994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=412994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=412994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}