{"id":416748,"date":"2026-04-29T03:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spirit-airlines-disappearance-raise-fares-routes-never-flew-why\/"},"modified":"2026-04-29T03:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-04-28T17:00:18","slug":"spirit-airlines-disappearance-would-raise-fares-on-routes-it-never-even-flew-heres-why","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=416748","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines&#8217; Disappearance Would Raise Fares On Routes It Never Even Flew: Here&#8217;s Why"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The disappearance of <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> from the world of commercial aviation would matter significantly beyond just the set of routes where its yellow Airbus A320 family models actually operate. The airline&#8217;s crisis has escalated from a difficult restructuring into a broader competitive warning for the entire US airline market. If the country&#8217;s most recognizable ultra-low-cost carrier collapses, travelers would lose one of the strongest downward pressures on fares.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier&#8217;s insolvency would seriously disrupt the market in a few key ways.<\/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":[396,476,1041,581,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-416748","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-low-cost-carrier","category-spirit-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416748","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=416748"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416748\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":416749,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/416748\/revisions\/416749"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=416748"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=416748"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=416748"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}