Delta and United Airlines have become the most profitable U.S. airlines by targeting premium customers while also winning a significant share of budget travelers.

The largest budget airline in the U.S., has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.

Spirit Airlines is dealing with a financial mess and is now filing for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection.

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Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue.

Spirit Airlines says it won’t announce its quarterly financial results on time because the company is focused on talks with bond holders to restructure its debt.

Spirit Airlines is cutting jobs and selling off some jets worth millions of dollars as the budget carrier aims to cut costs amid looming financial struggles and an uncertain future.

Spirit Airlines is about to roll out tickets that include perks like free snacks and no fee for checking a bag.

U.S. House leaders are calling on CrowdStrike CEO George Kurtz to testify to Congress about the cybersecurity company’s role in sparking the widespread tech outage that grounded flights, knocked banks and hospital systems offline and affected services around the world.

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines have to wait until June for a chance to save their $3.8 billion merger.

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are appealing a judge's ruling that is blocking their planned merger.

Asian shares are trading mixed as pessimism spreads among investors about any imminent interest rate cut in the U.S. Japan’s benchmark Nikkei finished little changed Thursday, inching down less than 0.1%.

What's next for Spirit Airlines, now that it won't be merging with JetBlue.

Asian shares are trading mostly lower after a decline overnight on Wall Street.

The prospect of a JetBlue-Spirit Airlines merger has taken a major hit in court.

JetBlue says it needs to buy Spirit Airlines to compete with bigger airlines in a post-Covid travel world.

The Biden administration and JetBlue Airways are facing off in court over the Biden administration's effort to stop JetBlue from buying Spirit Airlines.

Southwest Airlines earned $193 million in the third quarter, 30% less than its profit a year ago.

Spirit Airlines is canceling about 100 flights because it's pulling some planes out of service for inspections.

Lawyers suing JetBlue say in court filings that the airline could raise fares on some routes by up to 40% if it succeeds in buying Spirit Airlines.

U.S. consumer confidence shot to the highest level in two years this month as inflationary pressures eased and the American economy continued to show resilience in the face of dramatically higher interest rates.

JetBlue is trying to improve its chances of buying Spirit Airlines over government objections.

Spirit Airlines will start offering nonstop flights from Detroit to San Juan, Puerto Rico, this week.

The Federal Aviation Administration says a JetBlue pilot had to take evasive action while landing at Boston’s Logan International Airport when another aircraft crossed an intersecting runway.

Frontier Airlines is launching a new nonstop service route from Detroit Metro Airport (DTW) this spring.

The government and two major airlines are giving starkly contrasting views about the impact of an alliance between the airlines.

Spirit Airlines shareholders are approving a $3.8 billion sale of the company to JetBlue Airways.

JetBlue has agreed to buy Spirit Airlines in a $3.8 billion deal, a day after Spirit and Frontier Airlines dropped their merger proposal.

Spirit Airlines and Frontier Airlines agreed Wednesday to abandon their merger proposal, opening the way for JetBlue Airways to acquire Spirit.

Shares of Spirit Airlines are rising after the budget airline postponed a vote on a merger with Frontier for the second time.

Shareholders of Spirit Airlines will vote next month on a proposed merger with Frontier Airlines.

Shares of Frontier Airlines and Spirit Airlines have tumbled just days ahead of a crucial shareholder vote on their proposed merger.

The bidding war over Spirit Airlines is heating up again.

A Spirit Airlines flight had to make an emergency landing at Detroit Metro Airport on Thursday due to issues with the landing gear.

JetBlue is boosting its offer to buy Spirit Airlines, raising the stakes again in the bidding war over the nation’s biggest budget airline.

Spirit Airlines, the target of a budget airline bidding war, is postponing a Friday vote on whether to accept one of those buyout offers after a flurry of counter proposals from JetBlue and Frontier Airlines.

The bidding war over Spirit Airlines is ramping up again with JetBlue boosting its offer for the discount carrier just days after rival Frontier upped its own bid for Spirit.

Stocks are off to a higher start on Wall Street Monday led by more gains in big tech companies.

Spirit Airlines’ board still supports Frontier Airlines’ $2.9 billion takeover bid for the airline, saying it determined JetBlue’s competing $3.6 billion offer isn’t a superior proposal.

The fight for Spirit Airlines is heating up again.

Investors seem to be taking a slightly dim view of JetBlue's bid to buy Spirit Airlines for $3.6 billion.

JetBlue Airways is trying to buy Spirit Airlines and break up a plan for Spirit to merge with fellow budget airline Frontier.

Air travelers in the U.S. are getting a break after a bad weekend that left thousands of flyers stranded.

Several congressional Democrats are raising doubts about the proposed merger of Frontier and Spirit airlines.

On Friday, 39-year old Alexandra Lynn Farr faced a judge for charges in connection with an incident on a Spirit Airlines flight.

A Roseville woman has been charged with yelling racial slurs at another passenger on a Spirit flight and knocking that person’s phone out of their hand when they tried to record the altercation, officials said.

A Roseville woman has been charged in connection with the assault of a Muslim woman at the Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport.

Aïcha Touré was on a Spirit Airlines flight from Atlanta to Detroit when she tried to break up what was turning into a yelling match in front of her.

According to the Wayne County Airport Authority Police Department, the woman was cited for assault and disorderly conduct.

Spirit Airlines is putting numbers on a damaging stretch of flight cancellations this summer.

“I’ve spent over $3,000 and I have the receipts for all that,” Sarha said. “Besides financially and emotionally, it’s impacted me very very hard. So I will never ever chose Spirit again.”

As the nation sees a summer air travel surge thousands of Spirit Airlines passengers are dealing with canceled flights.

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It's summertime and airports are packed with vacationers again.

Airlines are adding more flights as the number of travelers continues to rise.

Spring break trips are being extended for many Metro Detroit residents stranded in the sunshine state.

ROMULUS, Mich. – A man and woman arrested following a bag dispute at the Detroit Metro Airport were arraigned Tuesday. Jameel Murphy and Raymonique Williams, both of Detroit, pleaded not guilty to aggravated assault, assault and battery, and disturbing the peace. PREVIOUS: 2 Spirit agents hurt, passengers arrested after bag dispute in Detroit, airline saysAccording to Spirit Airlines, the incident happened Sunday while the passengers were trying to board flight 646 from Detroit to Atlanta. The dispute was over the size of a carry-on bag. One employee was taken to the hospital and another employee, who has hired an attorney, also received medical attention.

2 Spirit agents hurt, passengers arrested after bag dispute in Detroit, airline saysDETROIT – Two Spirit agents were injured, two passengers were arrested and another was cited this weekend following a bag dispute at Detroit Metro Airport, the airline says. According to Spirit Airlines, “three passengers attacked our agents without provocation.”The incident happened Sunday while the passengers were trying to board flight 646 from Detroit to Atlanta, according to Spirit. When the agents asked the passengers to verify that their carry-on bags were appropriate sizes before boarding, the passengers became combative, according to airline officials. A man and woman died in a Detroit house fire on Tracey Street that happened Monday afternoon, the Detroit Fire Department confirmed. and was identified in a Washtenaw County woman who had recently traveled to the U.K. That’s where the variant originated.

ROMULUS, Mich. – Two Spirit agents were injured, two passengers were arrested and another was cited this weekend following a bag dispute at Detroit Metro Airport, the airline says. According to Spirit Airlines, “three passengers attacked our agents without provocation.”The incident happened Sunday while the passengers were trying to board flight 646 from Detroit to Atlanta, according to Spirit. When the agents asked the passengers to verify that their carry-on bags were appropriate sizes before boarding, the passengers became combative, according to airline officials. The agents tried to defuse the situation but were “physically assaulted” as they closed a door to stop the passengers from boarding, Spirit officials said. One of the agents was taken to a nearby hospital after the incident, airline officials said.

Separately, key members of Congress said they are investigating aviation contractors that took federal payroll aid and then laid off thousands of workers. Airlines and airline contractors who received cash from a $32 billion pool of federal payroll aid agreed not to lay off workers until Oct. 1. Airline labor unions are lobbying Congress for six more months of federal aid. Some contractors who received money laid off workers anyway, according to three Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. At Spirit, the pilots union said it was notified Wednesday that 806 pilots could be furloughed, or terminated with rehiring rights.

DETROIT – A Macomb County woman said she was in shock when a fight broke out as she was flying back home Thursday. “We were in shock, really. A passenger said other passengers were being too loud when he was trying to sleep and he was beaten bloody. The Macomb County woman said she was shocked that the flight was packed after Spirit told her they would distance passengers due to coronovirus concerns. Local 4 reached out to Spirit about what took place on the flight, but the company has not yet responded.

‘Why aren’t you doing anything?’ -- Flight to Michigan makes emergency landing after bloody fightPublished: May 2, 2020, 11:13 pmShe and her children returned home from a family commitment in Los Angeles, but that wasn’t the worst part of the trip -- a large brawl broke out on board.

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Several Spirit Airlines passengers filmed cell phone videos of a mysterious animal -- which they initially thought might be a bird, but ended up being a bat -- flapping around the cabin. Passengers on a recent Spirit Airlines flight from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Newark, New Jersey, did not have the same luxury. According to a rep from Spirit, animal control came on board to take the bat after the plane landed safely and customers were able to deplane. "The aircraft was disinfected and searched as a precaution," the Spirit Airlines representative told CNN. In 2017, a woman gave birth on board a Spirit flight from Fort Lauderdale to Dallas.

A toddler broke his hand after clambering onto a luggage belt and taking a tumbling trip into the bowels of Atlanta's Hartsfield-Jackson International Airport. The 2-year-old's frantic mother said she had been printing out a Spirit Airlines boarding pass when her child, Lorenzo, ran off and bolted behind an unstaffed ticket counter, then flung himself on the moving conveyor belt. I hope he's OK. I hope he's just enjoying the ride.''' Two employees enter the frame of the video just as the toddler slips from view, pointing and trying to see where the child went.