Beginning Oct. 4, Spirit Airlines will stop all flights at Columbia Metropolitan Airport. The move affects 12 U.S. airports as the company works through bankruptcy proceedings.
The shutdown cuts direct routes that once cost as little as $50 to Orlando, Fort Lauderdale, and Newark airports. This change follows Spirit’s Aug. 29 bankruptcy filing, which shook the air travel sector.
Kim Crafton, Columbia airport’s Vice President of Marketing and Air Service Development, was caught off guard by the news. “This news came as a shock to the entire airport team as all three routes saw consistently high load factors – which is the percentage of seats sold per flight,” Crafton said in a statement, according to Carolina News and Reporter…