A large swath of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport — Spirit’s hub — is now a ghost town. And overnight, more than 10,000 jobs — more than 3,000 of them here in South Florida — are gone.
Among those affected employees was Craig, a flight attendant from Fort Lauderdale. He appeared Friday on WLRN’s South Florida Roundup show with host Tim Padgett to talk about the end of Spirit Airlines and his job. He did not want to disclose his last name to protect his identity and future job prospects in the industry.
“ My on-call period started at midnight (Saturday), and there was already a bunch of rumors at that point internally that employees were hearing from people who worked in corporate that the end was near,” he said. “And then shortly after, the media started picking up on it and saying 3 a.m — that was it.”…