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Spirit Airlines’ sudden shutdown ahead of the summer travel season<\/a> is stoking fears of higher fares \u2014 and raising questions about what comes next.<\/p>\n

The airline, which had more than 4,000 domestic flights<\/a> scheduled \u200bthrough May 15, abruptly halted all flights on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

“This is tremendously disappointing and not the outcome any of us wanted,” Spirit CEO Dave Davis said in a company statement.<\/p>\n

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“All flights booked with credit and debit cards are in the process of being automatically refunded,” a spokesperson for Spirit previously told FOX Business<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“The majority of guests who booked travel on a credit or debit card were refunded as of Saturday evening, with a small percentage continuing to process. Refunds may take time to appear in a guest\u2019s account.”<\/p>\n

Travelers who purchased tickets through third-party vendors will need to reach out to those providers to request refunds, the airline said, FOX Business reported.<\/p>\n

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Passengers who booked using vouchers, travel credits or loyalty points face looming questions.<\/p>\n

The news of Spirit’s demise was “a blow to air travelers across the United States,” according to Lee Abbamonte, a New York-based travel expert.<\/a><\/p>\n

Abbamonte told Fox News Digital that Spirit “almost singlehandedly kept pricing competitive in many markets in the country.”<\/p>\n

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“With Spirit being no longer viable, there is no pressure on legacy carriers to keep prices lower<\/a>, especially with skyrocketing fuel costs,” he said, citing increased fuel prices tied to the war with Iran.<\/p>\n

Fox News Digital reached out to Spirit Airlines for comment.<\/p>\n

“This is going to have a ripple effect across airfare pricing all over the country,” he said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“You may not like Spirit \u2026 but you cannot argue with their pricing model,” added Abbamonte.\u00a0<\/p>\n

“Without Spirit, there’s no reason for airfare to ever come down, especially with fuel costs skyrocketing.”<\/p>\n

Hunter Shkolnik, a New York-based attorney and aviation expert, told Fox News Digital that he expects fares to go up “across the board.”<\/p>\n

“Legacy airlines<\/a> win here, budget travelers lose,” he said. “Spirit kept prices honest, and without it, fewer choices and higher baseline fares are almost inevitable.”<\/p>\n

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Michael Boyd, the Colorado-based CEO of aviation consultancy Boyd Group International, disagreed about fare hikes. He told Fox News Digital that the concerns are “absolute nonsense.”<\/p>\n

“By this point, Spirit is not really a factor,” he said. “They\u2019re not in a lot of major markets and the ones they are in are mostly focused in Florida.”<\/p>\n

Major U.S. airlines<\/u><\/a> \u2014 including United, Delta, JetBlue and Southwest \u2014 are capping their rebooking fares.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Affected Spirit customers may be eligible for one-way tickets priced at around $200, provided they can verify their original booking, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a Saturday morning press conference.<\/p>\n

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“I would recommend that if you have a ticket with Spirit that you actually try to book with these airlines as soon as possible,” Duffy said.\u00a0<\/p>\n

American and Delta are also offering reduced fares on high-traffic Spirit routes, while Allegiant has frozen prices on overlapping routes. Frontier is offering up to 50% off base fares through May 10, Duffy wrote on X.<\/p>\n

Spirit passengers had mixed reactions to the shutdown.<\/p>\n

“My thing with Spirit was your ticket could be $75, but by the time you [added] your bag, seat and gas for the plane, you [were] paying $300 like any other airline,” one person said.<\/p>\n

“The only thing Spirit was good for is if you were flying with the clothes on your back and nothing else,” another chimed in.<\/p>\n

“The way airline prices have doubled overnight because of Spirit shutting down,” a third X user wrote. “Legit it’s too expensive to literally exist nowadays.”<\/p>\n

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Sophia Compton of FOX Business and<\/i> <\/strong>Reuters contributed reporting.<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

Source – https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/travel\/spirit-airlines-chaos-could-big-loss-budget-travelers-fight-answers <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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