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☆ What travelers need to know about Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy
▼ + stars: | 2024-11-18 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

In this article SAVE Follow your favorite stocks CREATE FREE ACCOUNTA passenger waits for assistance at the Spirit Airlines check-in counter in the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on November 13, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Brandon Bell | Getty ImagesSpirit Airlines has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, becoming the first major U.S. passenger carrier to do so since American Airlines 13 years ago. Here's what travelers need to know:Why did Spirit file for bankruptcy? Spirit said Monday that it has reached a prearranged deal with the majority of its bondholders for a "streamlined" Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection plan. Rather, it gives the airline protection to reorganize its business, which often means shedding assets or parts of its operation.

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☆ Trump doubles down on replacing income taxes with tariffs in Joe Rogan interview
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-26 | by ( Rebecca Picciotto | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Former President Donald Trump stood by his idea to end income taxes and substitute them with tariffs in a Friday interview with Joe Rogan, the host of one of the most widely listened to podcasts in the world. "Did you just float out the idea of getting rid of income taxes and replacing it with tariffs?" He has also said he would consider income tax exemptions for firefighters, police officers, military personnel and veterans. But tax experts and economic analysts do not think Trump's tariffs would be an adequate counterweight to balance the trillions lost from eliminating income taxes. In effect, these tariffs could replace income tax with a kind of new sales tax, shifting the tax burden more heavily onto low-income individuals.

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☆ Spirit Airlines stock jumps 25% after struggling budget carrier said it will sell planes, cut jobs
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-25 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Spirit Airlines baggage tags are seen near a check-in counter at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport on April 10, 2024 in Austin, Texas. Spirit Airlines shares surged after the struggling budget carrier said it would cut jobs and sell aircraft. That sale will bring in $519 million, Spirit said in a securities filing. Earlier this week, The Wall Street Journal reported that Spirit and Frontier Airlines have revived merger discussions, sending shares higher. The two budget airlines had a merger agreement that was derailed by JetBlue 's April 2022 offer to purchase Spirit outright.

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☆ Spirit Airlines extends debt refinancing deadline hours before expiration
▼ + stars: | 2024-10-18 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A Spirit Airlines aircraft undergoes operations in preparation for departure at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2024. Spirit Airlines on Friday said it reached an agreement with its credit card processor to again extended a debt refinancing timeline to December, hours before it was set to hit its deadline. Spirit said in a filing late Friday that earlier this week it drew down the entirety of its $300 million revolving credit facility and expects to end the year with just over $1 billion in liquidity. The deadline was previously set in September and had been extended until Oct. 21 before the Friday change. The airline's stock closed at a new low Friday, down roughly 3%, at less than $1.50 per share.

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☆ Pilots who came within 150 feet of a crash in Austin share how they averted disaster
▼ + stars: | 2024-09-13 | by ( Pete Muntean | Marnie Hunter | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +5 min

The pilots of a FedEx cargo plane couldn’t see the runway or the airfield at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. On Thursday, another near-miss was added to the list when an Alaska Airlines plane and a Southwest plane nearly collided in Nashville. In some cases, hero pilots such as Bradeen and Carvajal have kept collision courses from turning deadly. But about three miles out from landing, they grew uneasy when an air traffic controller cleared the Southwest flight to take off in front of them. The pilots’ awareness was heightened, but Bradeen said he didn’t realize a collision was imminent until about 100 or 150 feet away.

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☆ Spirit Airlines forecasts wider quarterly loss as revenue falls short of expectations
▼ + stars: | 2024-07-16 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A Spirit Airlines aircraft undergoes operations in preparation for departure at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2024. Spirit Airlines said Tuesday it would post a wider-than-expected loss for the last quarter because of revenue that came in short of its expectations. Spirit expects to report an adjusted loss of between $160 million and $173 million for the three months ended June 30, compared with a previous estimate for a loss of no more than $145 million. Spirit said non-ticket revenue, which accounts for the myriad fees long associated with its rock-bottom fares, came in "several dollars lower than anticipated" per passenger. "As the Company progresses on its transformation strategy, it anticipates that over time it will be able to drive improvement in total revenue per passenger segment," Spirit said.

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☆ Spirit Airlines isn't considering Chapter 11, 'encouraged' by post-JetBlue plan, CEO says
▼ + stars: | 2024-06-07 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

A Spirit Airlines aircraft undergoes operations in preparation for departure at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2024. Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie said Friday that the budget airline isn't considering a Chapter 11 bankruptcy filing and is "encouraged" by its plan after a failed takeover by JetBlue Airways . Earlier this year, a federal judge blocked JetBlue's planned takeover of Spirit on antitrust grounds, raising concerns on Wall Street about the money-losing airline's ability to address its debt. "We are proudly executing to our plan as we've exited the merger agreement with JetBlue and are encouraged by the initial results of our stand-alone plan," Christie said at an annual shareholder meeting on Friday. S&P Global Ratings on Wednesday downgraded Spirit, raising questions about its ability to refinance.

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☆ Spirit Airlines gets rid of change and cancellation fees, joining Frontier
▼ + stars: | 2024-05-20 | by ( Ece Yildirim | In Ecedyildirim | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

A Spirit Airlines aircraft undergoes operations in preparation for departure at the Austin-Bergstrom International Airport in Austin, Texas, on Feb. 12, 2024. Spirit Airlines is doing away with both change and cancellation fees, effective immediately, days after Frontier's similar announcement, part of an overhaul of the country's biggest discount carriers' longtime strategy. Ancillary revenue routinely surpasses those airlines' ticket prices. Most larger rivals such as Delta , American , Alaska and United got rid of change fees during the pandemic except for the cheapest, most restrictive tickets. Along with getting rid of change fees, Frontier also announced Friday that it will start offering bundles that include add-on options such as early boarding and checked baggage that they previously offered a la carte.

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☆ A winter weather pattern change is about to bring a wild swing in temperatures to the US
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-19 | by ( Mary Gilbert | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +9 min

Mark Zaleski/The Tennessean/USA Today Network Snow falls on parked cars in Concord, New Hampshire, on January 16. Monday's caucuses were the coldest ever , with high temperatures below zero across much of the state. Dan Powers/USA Today Network Firefighters rescue a man after his car was stuck in a flooded area in Charlotte, North Carolina, on January 9. Gregg Pachkowski/USA Today Network Snow covers the trees around the Holy Hill Basilica and National Shrine of Mary in Hubertus, Wisconsin, on January 9. Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com/USA Today Network Flooding is seen at an intersection in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on January 9.

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☆ Northwest faces freezing rain and heavy snow while Arctic blast loosens its grip on eastern US
▼ + stars: | 2024-01-17 | by ( Elizabeth Wolfe | Robert Shackelford | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +11 min

Mark Zaleski/The Tennessean/USA Today Network Snow falls on parked cars in Concord, New Hampshire, on January 16. Gary Hershorn/Corbis News/Getty Images Snow and ice dust a worker who was removing snow from a sidewalk in Des Moines on January 13. Dan Powers/USA Today Network Firefighters rescue a man after his car was stuck in a flooded area in Charlotte, North Carolina, on January 9. Gregg Pachkowski/USA Today Network Snow covers the trees around the Holy Hill Basilica and National Shrine of Mary in Hubertus, Wisconsin, on January 9. Tariq Zehawi/NorthJersey.com/USA Today Network Flooding is seen at an intersection in Spartanburg, South Carolina, on January 9.

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☆ Delta beefs up Austin flights in battle for fast-growing airport
▼ + stars: | 2023-12-15 | by ( Leslie Josephs | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +2 min

Delta Air Lines is adding more flights next year at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, in a bid to gain market share in one of the country's fastest-growing airports. The carrier plans to add 11 nonstop flights from Austin in April, giving it almost 50 peak-day flights, the airline said Friday. Flight additions include Midland-Odessa and McAllen in Texas, as well as Raleigh-Durham in North Carolina, Nashville and Cincinnati. "For us here at Delta, Texas has historically been a white space for opportunity on our network." Delta had a market share of close to 14% in Austin as of September, behind Southwest Airlines ' 40% share and American's 22%, according to airport data.

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☆ ‘You couldn’t see anything:’ NTSB documents reveal new details on airliner near-collision
▼ + stars: | 2023-11-30 | by ( Pete Muntean | Gregory Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

The National Transportation Safety Board on Wednesday released more than 2,000 pages of interviews, transcripts, air traffic control recordings, and flight track data it has collected on the February 4 incident. The crew of the landing FedEx aircraft, a 767 cargo jet with three crew members onboard, told investigators the plane was on autopilot for the approach into Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. Concurrently, the FedEx crew aborted their landing. “Rollin now,” the Southwest crew replied, according to a transcript of the radio exchanges published by the NTSB. Campbell also told investigators that he was working an overtime shift.

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That is because in his four years working the tower at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, the controller said, Southwest planes usually took off as soon as they got permission. “But hindsight being 20/20,” controller Damian Campbell told investigators, he “definitely could have held them,” referring to making the Southwest crew wait. Campbell said he couldn't even see the Southwest plane through the dense early morning fog on Feb. 4. Political Cartoons View All 1273 ImagesThe National Transportation Safety Board released transcripts of interviews and other details of its investigation Wednesday. “We had this dense ground fog ... you couldn't see anything,” Campbell told investigators.

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☆ Virgin Atlantic suspends its route from London to Austin because it says the city's tech boom is over
▼ + stars: | 2023-10-28 | by ( John L. Dorman | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Virgin Atlantic said on Friday that it would end its route between Austin and London in January. When Virgin Atlantic launched its nonstop London route, it offered four flights from Austin each week. AdvertisementAdvertisementAustin airport officials, in a statement, thanked Virgin Atlantic and indicated that they hoped to see the airline return in the future. "AUS is grateful to the incredible Virgin Atlantic team for launching this ambitious route," the statement read. Virgin Atlantic may be axing its London route from Austin, but British Airways remains, connecting the two cities with nonstop flights.

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Mistakes by air traffic controllers — stretched thin by a nationwide staffing shortage — have been one major factor. So do the air traffic controllers who scour the skies and manage takeoffs and landings. The number of fully trained air traffic controllers nationwide has fallen 10 percent in the past decade. data and the agency’s most recent “Air Traffic Controller Workforce Plan.”Nearly all U.S. air traffic control facilities are understaffed Circles represent 313 air traffic facilities in the United States, including airport towers and larger regional centers. Desiree Rios for The New York TimesPilots, air traffic controllers and federal investigators have warned repeatedly that America’s air safety system is fraying.

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☆ American Airlines worker found to have been killed by accident after an airline investigator suggested it may have been suicide, report says
▼ + stars: | 2023-07-23 | by ( Ryan Hogg | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

Austin police ruled an AA worker was killed in April by accident, per the Austin American-Statesman. The tug that killed Michal Ingraham was in an incident 10 days before his death, per the report. An AA investigator had argued that Ingraham's death was a suicide, according to the newspaper. An American Airlines employee who died in April when he was involved in a crash on the airport tarmac was found to have been killed by accident, after a corporate investigator for the airline suggested it may have been a suicide, a report says. Both the Travis County medical examiner and police concluded that the worker had been killed by accident, per the report.

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☆ Austin's airport has been failing for years to keep up with its booming population, but officials are innovating everything from baggage handling to security screening to make the next expansion work
▼ + stars: | 2023-05-03 | by ( Katherine Fan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +1 min

Austin's airport is one of the newest and fastest-growing airports in the US. Despite efforts, the airport is rapidly outgrowing an infrastructure designed for a much smaller population. A 20-year expansion plan aims to build a model airport for growing cities, but forecasts predict it still won't be enough. The capital city of Texas has quadrupled its population since 2000, and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport (ABIA) serves as a gateway for transplants and visitors alike. But the airport has struggled to keep up with the city's booming population, leading to delays and other air-travel frustrations.

☆ An American Airlines employee died when his vehicle crashed at an airport in Texas
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-22 | by ( Jyoti Mann | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

An American Airlines employee was pronounced dead after a crash in Texas on Thursday. The worker died after a vehicle crashed on the tarmac at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. An American Airlines employee died when a vehicle he was driving crashed into a jet bridge at an airport in Texas. The incident occurred outside the terminal where aircraft park, Austin-Bergstrom International Airport said in a statement on Twitter. An American Airlines representative told Insider: "We are devastated by the accident involving a team member at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport.

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☆ FAA chief gets grilled by Congress for recent airline groundings and safety concerns
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-15 | by ( Gregory Wallace | ) edition.cnn.com time to read: +4 min

In a letter to Congress in early February, the FAA said it plans to dramatically accelerate replacing its outdated Notice To Air Missions (NOTAM) safety system, whose failure led to a nationwide air travel grounding in January. A contractor working for the FAA unintentionally deleted files related to the key pilot safety system, the FAA said. The near collisions have also raised concerns that the FAA’s safety systems may be insufficient. “Can I sit here today and tell you that there will never be another issue on the NOTAM system? That near collision happened after air traffic controllers cleared the FedEx Boeing 767 to land on Austin’s Runway 18 Left, according to the FAA.

☆ Southwest, FedEx Planes Came Within a Thousand Feet in Austin on Saturday
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | Alison Sider | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

Concerns have been raised about the potential for collisions on runways and taxiways in recent years. Southwest Airlines Co. and FedEx Corp. planes came within a thousand feet of each other Saturday morning near a runway at the Austin, Texas, airport, a close call that air-safety officials are investigating. Around 6:40 a.m. CT, a FedEx Boeing Co. 767 cargo plane was cleared to land on one of the runways at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said, citing preliminary information.

☆ A FedEx aircraft aborted landing to avoid a Southwest Airlines passenger jet that was mistakenly cleared for the same runway
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-05 | by ( Stephanie Stacey | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +3 min

A FedEx aircraft aborted its landing to avoid a Southwest Airlines jet on Saturday during heavy fog. Both were mistakenly cleared for the same runway at Austin Bergstrom International Airport. "The pilot of the FedEx airplane discontinued the landing and initiated a climb out," said the FAA. "Shortly before the FedEx aircraft was due to land, the controller cleared Southwest Flight 708 to depart from the same runway," the FAA said, per Reuters. Southwest Airlines, FedEx, and Austin-Bergstrom International Airport did not immediately respond to requests for comment from Insider.

☆ Air-Safety Officials Investigate Close Call Between FedEx and Southwest Planes in Austin
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-04 | by ( Micah Maidenberg | Alison Sider | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

The FAA and the National Transportation Safety Board have opened probes into the incident, which occurred at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport. U.S. aviation-safety agencies said they are investigating an incident Saturday at the airport in Austin, Texas, where planes operated by Southwest Airlines Co. and FedEx Corp. could have collided. Around 6:40 a.m. CT, a FedEx cargo plane was cleared to land on one of the runways at Austin-Bergstrom International Airport, a spokesman for the Federal Aviation Administration said, citing preliminary information. Shortly before that aircraft was set to land, an air-traffic controller cleared a Southwest flight to depart from the same runway, he said.

☆ Deadly ice storm rages in Texas, causing travel chaos and outages
▼ + stars: | 2023-02-01 | by ( Chantal Da Silva | ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +4 min

Abbott held a meeting and news conference in preparation for the winter storm that is sweeping across portions of Texas. That evening, a 49-year-old woman died after the 1997 Chevrolet Silverado she was driving struck a tree near Eldorado, Texas, according to the Texas Department of Public Safety. Dangerous roads and flight cancellationsThe storm has caused widespread travel chaos both on the roads and at airports this week. Sweeping power outagesResidents across Texas have also faced power outages in the midst of the storm. Public Utility Commission Chairman Peter Lake told Texans to contact their local power providers if winter weather and icing conditions caused local power outages.

At Salt Lake City International Airport (SLC), a set of tire chains and a taxidermy rat landed in lost-and-found. The aptly named Lost and Found Software serves many U.S. and international airports as well as public transportation systems. Despite their differences, each provider promises to help customer service workers not only connect more lost items with their owners but to speed up returns as well. Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport (ATL), Southwest Airlines, JetBlue, Delta Air Lines and others use NetTracer, which has been operating since 2004. Boomerang recently landed two airport customers: Savannah/Hilton Head (SAV) and New York’s Syracuse Hancock International Airport (SYR).

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