Spirit Airlines reports over 4,850 job cuts in Florida.
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Spirit Airlines reports over 4,850 job cuts in Florida. Spirit Airlines job cuts include over 3,260 in South Florida. HOLLYWOOD, Fla. - Spirit Airlines reported laying off more than 4,850 people in Florida, including more than 3,260 in Broward and Miami-Dade counties, records show. Sandra Gonzalez and Denise Pool were both dealing with the devastation of sudden job loss on Tuesday at the CareerSource Broward South Center. "It's super emotional to be here, seeing all of my co-workers that we have been together for so long, and now we are together at the unemployment office," Pool said. The failed ultra-low-cost airline filed the layoff notices on Monday with the FloridaCommerce, the state's lead agency for workforce. Records show the notice included 2,529 at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, 551 at the Spirit Support Center in Dania Beach, and 181 at Miami International Airport. The others were 796 at the Orlando International Airport, and 796 at the MCO Infight & Operations Center in Orlando. "We didn't intentionally sell any tickets, thinking we weren't going to be here. We thought we were going to get the liquidity we needed," Dave Davis, the Spirit Airlines chief executive officer, told The Wall Street Journal on Monday. Spirit Airlines had suffered more than $2.5 billion in losses since 2020, and filed for bankruptcy in 2024 and 2025 before a...
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