Spirit Airways is about to furlough 1,800 flight attendants, in keeping with a memo despatched to employees from John Bendoraitis, Spirit’s chief working officer, on Monday.
“As we work to return Spirit to profitability, we face tough choices about our community, our fleet, and finally our workforce,” the memo mentioned, per The Wall Road Journal. “We have to shift our focus to a whole rightsizing of the airline, which implies volume-based changes to our Flight Attendant group, and throughout our groups. That is onerous information, and we perceive it impacts not solely you and your friends but in addition your households.”
Final week, Spirit CEO Dave Davis warned employees that job cuts have been imminent after the corporate filed its second chapter in lower than a yr in late August. The cuts introduced on Monday will influence one-third of the corporate’s whole cabin crew members.
Vacationers at a Spirit Airways bag drop at LaGuardia Airport (LGA) within the Queens borough of New York, US, on Tuesday, Aug. 19, 2025. Michael Nagle/Bloomberg by way of Getty Photos
The present, voluntary furloughs may be chosen for six or 12 months, and those that select the go away will hold medical advantages whereas out, in keeping with a word despatched by the Affiliation of Flight Attendants-CWA (AFA) union to its members and seen by CNBC.
Bendoraitis mentioned that about 800 flight attendants are already on go away, however there’s a “restrict to how many individuals can volunteer.” Tons of of pilots have already been furloughed.
Involuntary furloughs will start on Dec. 1, the union mentioned.
Earlier this month, Spirit introduced that it was ending service to a dozen cities in October, and rival airways are already swooping in. Frontier Airways, for instance, which has a 35% overlap with Spirit on routes, per CNBC, mentioned it might be including 20 new routes.
“If Spirit out of the blue goes out of enterprise, it is going to be extremely disruptive, so we’re including these flights to present their prospects different choices if they need or want them,” mentioned Patrick Quayle, United’s senior vp of worldwide community planning and alliances, in a press launch on the time.
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Spirit Airways is about to furlough 1,800 flight attendants, in keeping with a memo despatched to employees from John Bendoraitis, Spirit’s chief working officer, on Monday.
“As we work to return Spirit to profitability, we face tough choices about our community, our fleet, and finally our workforce,” the memo mentioned, per The Wall Road Journal. “We have to shift our focus to a whole rightsizing of the airline, which implies volume-based changes to our Flight Attendant group, and throughout our groups. That is onerous information, and we perceive it impacts not solely you and your friends but in addition your households.”
Final week, Spirit CEO Dave Davis warned employees that job cuts have been imminent after the corporate filed its second chapter in lower than a yr in late August. The cuts introduced on Monday will influence one-third of the corporate’s whole cabin crew members.
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