#spiritshutdown — Public Fediverse posts

"Meet the pilots flying Spirit Airlines’ yellow jets to the desert" by CNBC / Leslie Josephs - Spirit Airlines planes all stopped where their last passenger flight ended. This story only accounts for movement of 20 of Spirit's 114 planes, which Nomadic Air was hired to ferry. So it tells a wider story that repeated as lessors hired their own crews to fly planes to storage parking at various desert airports. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/16/spirit-airlines-airplanes.html #SpiritShutdown #aviation #travel #business #avgeek

Phoenix Goodyear Airport #KGYR has been getting some of the #SpiritAirlines fleet for parking too. Two flight plans are scheduled by ferry crews on behalf of plane owner Bank of Utah. Spirit, Nomadic and ferry crews on behalf of other aircraft lessors/owners have been flying planes there too. There could be a bunch of other boneyards getting some of the Spirit planes for parking. Check around. 👀 #SpiritShutdown #aviation #travel #business #avgeek

Phoenix Goodyear Airport #KGYR has been getting some of the #SpiritAirlines fleet for parking too. Two flight plans are scheduled by ferry crews on behalf of plane owner Bank of Utah. Spirit, Nomadic and ferry crews on behalf of other aircraft lessors/owners have been flying planes there too. There could be a bunch of other boneyards getting some of the Spirit planes for parking. Check around. 👀 #SpiritShutdown #aviation #travel #business #avgeek

Phoenix Goodyear Airport #KGYR has been getting some of the #SpiritAirlines fleet for parking too. Two flight plans are scheduled by ferry crews on behalf of plane owner Bank of Utah. Spirit, Nomadic and ferry crews on behalf of other aircraft lessors/owners have been flying planes there too. There could be a bunch of other boneyards getting some of the Spirit planes for parking. Check around. 👀 #SpiritShutdown #aviation #travel #business #avgeek

Phoenix Goodyear Airport #KGYR has been getting some of the #SpiritAirlines fleet for parking too. Two flight plans are scheduled by ferry crews on behalf of plane owner Bank of Utah. Spirit, Nomadic and ferry crews on behalf of other aircraft lessors/owners have been flying planes there too. There could be a bunch of other boneyards getting some of the Spirit planes for parking. Check around. 👀 #SpiritShutdown #aviation #travel #business #avgeek

Phoenix Goodyear Airport #KGYR has been getting some of the #SpiritAirlines fleet for parking too. Two flight plans are scheduled by ferry crews on behalf of plane owner Bank of Utah. Spirit, Nomadic and ferry crews on behalf of other aircraft lessors/owners have been flying planes there too. There could be a bunch of other boneyards getting some of the Spirit planes for parking. Check around. 👀 #SpiritShutdown #aviation #travel #business #avgeek

Almost like a scripted ending, the last three flights of #SpiritAirlines landed sequentially at Dallas-Fort Worth #KDFW around midnight Central Time. Game over. The announcement to employees has leaked that Spirit will cease operations at 3am Eastern (in 2 hours). But two hours before that time they have no planes in the air. #SpiritShutdown #aviation #business #travel #avgeek

The three remaining #SpiritAirlines planes still in flight will all land at Dallas-Fort Worth #KDFW in a matter of minutes around midnight Central Time. If an announcement is coming, this is probably the time. #SpiritShutdown #aviation #business #travel #avgeek

A check of FlightAware's fleet status for #SpiritAirlines shows the shutdown of the airline is already in progress. 5 flights are filed with ferry flight numbers (no passengers), 2 already in flight, to Pinal Air Park #KMZJ in Arizona. MZJ does not have airline service. It's a boneyard. This doesn't indicate how quickly operations will wind down, only that the process of removing planes from service has begun. https://www.flightaware.com/live/fleet/NKS #SpiritShutdown #aviation #business #travel #avgeek