{"id":420766,"date":"2026-05-05T09:26:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:26:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/inside-spirit-airlines-ferry-flights-whos-flying\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T09:26:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T23:26:14","slug":"91-jets-across-26-airports-inside-spirit-airlines-ferry-flights-whos-flying-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=420766","title":{"rendered":"91 Jets Across 26 Airports: Inside Spirit Airlines\u2019 Ferry Flights &amp; Who\u2019s Flying Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Last week, the world watched as America&#8217;s largest ultra-low-cost carrier ceased operations. <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>passengers and crew were <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spirit-airlines-shut-down-talks-fail\/\" >stranded across the airline&#8217;s network<\/a>, leaving thousands of staff out of work, and closing the final chapter of the airline&#8217;s long-running financial troubles. This has left 91 jets at 26 airports across the country.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stranded across the airline&#8217;s network, Spirit Airlines&#8217; fleet of bright yellow aircraft now sit idle at 26 airports across the United States.<\/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":[396,475,3093,1315,581,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-420766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airports","category-collapse","category-ferry-flight","category-spirit-airlines","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420766","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=420766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":420767,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420766\/revisions\/420767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=420766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=420766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=420766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}