Spirit Airlines at the Henry E. Rohlsen Airport on St. Croix. Photo Credit: V.I. CONSORTIUM.
On Friday, Spirit Aviation Holdings announced a “comprehensive restructuring of the airline to position the business for long-term success.” As part of that restructuring, the Spirit Airlines parent company said that it had filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the Southern District of New York’s bankruptcy court. According to Spirit’s own route pages, the airline sells flights to St. Thomas and St. Croix (STX), including published booking paths for Fort Lauderdale–St. Thomas and Fort Lauderdale–St. Croix.
The move comes less than a year after last November’s Chapter 11 bankruptcy, which provided the airline with a $795 million debt-for-equity swap with creditors, and resulted in its delisting from the New York Stock Exchange. However, the airline stopped short of more serious cost-cutting measures such as reducing the size of its fleet…