{"id":426339,"date":"2026-05-12T11:00:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/spirit-airlines-left-minneapolis-fares-doubled-now-everywhere\/"},"modified":"2026-05-12T11:00:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-12T01:00:18","slug":"when-spirit-airlines-left-minneapolis-fares-doubled-now-its-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=426339","title":{"rendered":"When Spirit Airlines Left Minneapolis, Fares Doubled: Now It&#8217;s Everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For years, travelers mocked <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> while quietly benefiting from everything the carrier represented. The bright yellow planes became internet punchlines, the cramped cabins inspired endless jokes, and the extra fees turned the airline into a meme, yet behind all of that irritation was one uncomfortable reality for the rest of the industry &#8211; Spirit forced larger airlines to keep fares lower than they otherwise would have been. Now that pressure is suddenly gone, and the consequences are already becoming visible across the US.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ultra-low-cost carrier recently ceased operations.<\/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":[429,396,476,3294,581,615,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-426339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-airbus-a320","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-minneapolis-st-paul-international-airport","category-spirit-airlines","category-ultra-low-cost-carrier","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426339","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=426339"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426339\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":426340,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/426339\/revisions\/426340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=426339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=426339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=426339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}