Eels have today shared details of a new album, ‘Cookie Happened’, while giving fans a taster of what it sounds like via the emotive new track, ‘Cap In Hand’ – listen to it below. The album will be the band’s 16th and will arrive on October 16 via E Works/Play It Again Sam. You can…
When Spirit Airlines shut down before dawn on May 2, work for pilot Steve Giordano was just beginning. Giordano, managing partner of the Nomadic Aviation Group, told CNBC he organized a massive repossession of more than 20 Spirit planes that lessors wanted returned. In just over a week, he said he and his team ferried…
A Spirit Airlines plane sits parked at Hollywood Burbank Airport in California, April 16, 2026. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Spirit Airlines struggled for years, battered by larger, cash-rich airlines that copied its business model as well as by failed mergers, higher costs and, most recently, a surge in jet fuel prices because of the…
Spirit Airlines was once a potent force in the U.S. aviation industry. Its demise will reveal how strong that influence had been in recent years when air travel had already begun moving away from the low-fare model that Spirit pioneered. The airline’s shutdown on Saturday after years of financial troubles resulted in the loss of…
When Spirit Airlines shut down overnight Saturday — canceling all flights, letting go of 17,000 employees, and telling ticketholders to just not come to the airport — people were flabbergasted but also bereft. For all its indignities, Spirit was cheap. Then one of them had an idea. Hunter Peterson, a voice actor with frequent flyer…
Spirit Airlines kiosks at New York’s LaGuardia Airport on May 2, hours after the carrier shut down. Leslie Josephs/CNBC BALTIMORE/NEW YORK — Spirit Airlines was hours away from its final flights Friday afternoon. Jeremiah Burton was hours away from his first. “It’s my first time flying,” Burton, a 45-year-old air conditioning and heating technician, told…
Ashley Owens expected Saturday to be stressful. She was, after all, the maid of honor in her friend’s wedding in Las Vegas that evening. But when she woke up on Saturday, she discovered that her Spirit Airlines flight home on Sunday to Texas had been canceled because the company had shut down for good. Mrs….
Spirit Airlines reshaped aviation in the United States by stripping down flying to its essentials and selling what were often the cheapest tickets around. But the airline shut down for good on Saturday, a victim of the rising costs it once excelled at controlling. In a statement just after 2 a.m., Spirit said it had…
Spirit Airlines check-in Kiosks sit idle at Oakland International Airport on August 13, 2025 in Oakland, California. Justin Sullivan | Getty Images Spirit Airlines could shut down as early as 3 a.m. ET Saturday, according to people familiar with the matter. The carrier has failed to secure a financial lifeline to continue operating, though it…
Spirit Airlines airplanes sit parked at Fort Lauderdale – Hollywood International Airport, in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, U.S., April 23, 2026. Marco Bello | Reuters President Donald Trump said Friday that his administration gave a “final” bailout proposal for Spirit Airlines as the budget carrier could be forced to liquidate without a lifeline. Talks with bondholders…
