{"id":422852,"date":"2026-05-08T08:34:37","date_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:34:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spirit-airlines-pilots-hired-fly-own-jets-boneyard\/"},"modified":"2026-05-08T08:34:37","modified_gmt":"2026-05-07T22:34:37","slug":"money-in-their-pocket-spirit-airlines-pilots-hired-to-fly-their-own-jets-to-the-boneyard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=422852","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Money In Their Pocket&#8221;: Spirit Airlines Pilots Hired To Fly Their Own Jets To The Boneyard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Several former <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> pilots have been supporting Nomadic Aviation with the relocation of the defunct airline&#8217;s planes to desert storage locations. The airline, which abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spirit-airlines-shut-down-talks-fail\/\" >ceased operations<\/a> after years of financial struggles, has left planes scattered across the country, thousands of employees out of work, and left passengers stranded.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nomadic Aviation Group, led by Managing Partner Bob Allen, is ferrying Spirit Airlines planes to desert storage locations.<\/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":[396,476,3093,5745,1315,581,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-422852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-collapse","category-defunct-airlines","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\/422852","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=422852"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":422934,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422852\/revisions\/422934"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}