{"id":429064,"date":"2026-05-16T05:00:19","date_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/simpleflying.com\/over-two-thirds-ex-spirit-airlines-jets-already-storage\/"},"modified":"2026-05-16T05:00:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-15T19:00:19","slug":"over-two-thirds-of-ex-spirit-airlines-jets-are-already-in-storage-flight-tracking-data-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=429064","title":{"rendered":"Over Two-Thirds Of Ex-Spirit Airlines Jets Are Already In Storage, Flight Tracking Data Shows"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>13 days ago, on Saturday, May 2, a defining chapter in the commercial aviation sector in the United States of America came to an end when yellow-liveried 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> confirmed that it would be ceasing operations for good. Since then, little time has been wasted in flying its aircraft into storage, with more than two-thirds of these jets having already been flown away. The majority have ended up in desert locations.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The carrier ceased operations just under two weeks ago.<\/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":[396,476,581,8197,423],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-429064","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aircraft","category-airlines","category-spirit-airlines","category-storage","category-united-states"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429064","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=429064"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429064\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":429066,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429064\/revisions\/429066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=429064"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=429064"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=429064"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}