Spirit Cuts Flights to Los Angeles, Nashville, Dallas, and Extra in Newest Shake-up

Low-cost service Spirit Airways is chopping dozens extra flights throughout the nation in a shake-up geared toward directing sources to the preferred routes.

The airline will minimize 24 completely different routes from Nashville to Los Angeles and past, the corporate confirmed to Journey + Leisure. The cuts will take impact over the course of the subsequent few months.

“We routinely consider our community and make changes to assist the corporate’s enterprise technique primarily based on present market and working circumstances,” a Spirit spokesperson instructed T+L. “As a part of this course of, we up to date our upcoming schedule to deal with our strongest performing routes.”

Beginning instantly, the corporate has ended flights from Columbus to Tampa, from San Antonio to Tampa, from Nashville to Los Angeles, from Burbank to Sacramento, from Cleveland to Orlando, from Dallas to San Antonio, from Dallas to Chicago, from Newark to San Antonio, from Fort Lauderdale to Phoenix, from Las Vegas to Richmond, from Los Angeles to Oakland, and from Los Angeles to Pittsburgh. On Dec. 2, the airline will minimize flights from Dallas to Tampa, adopted a day later by Charlotte to Houston, Dallas to Houston, and San Diego to Sacramento.

Then on Jan. 8, 2025, Spirit will minimize Boston to Newark, Charlotte to Dallas, Charlotte to Los Angeles, and Columbus to Los Angeles, adopted by chopping Los Angeles to each San Antonio and Salt Lake Metropolis in March.

Spirit will even minimize two worldwide routes from Fort Lauderdale to each San Salvador, El Salvador, and Managua, Nicaragua, on Feb. 10 and Feb. 11, 2025, respectively. 

The cuts come as Spirit revamped its fare courses, including extra inclusive choices, and eradicated most change and cancellation charges. The airline can also be reportedly in talks to merge with fellow low-cost service Frontier Airways after a federal choose blocked a proposed merger between the airline and JetBlue. 

This additionally isn’t the primary time Spirit has minimize routes. Final month, the service equally minimize dozens of routes, persevering with to battle since these preliminary JetBlue merger plans ended.