May. 14 at 10:05 PM
Thousands of employees are suing Spirit Airlines for alleged unpaid wages and severance after the carrier abruptly shut down operations, leaving staff with little to no warning. The lawsuit, filed in federal bankruptcy court in New York, represents about 17,000 affected workers who claim they were not paid final salaries, accrued vacation, or unused sick leave, and that the company violated U.S. WARN Act requirements by failing to provide 60 days’ notice before mass layoffs.
According to the complaint, employees learned just hours before the shutdown that May 2 would be their last working day. Spirit Airlines, once a major U.S. low-cost carrier serving over 32 million passengers annually and routes across the Caribbean and Latin America, had already entered bankruptcy proceedings in 2024 and again in 2025 amid financial strain and rising costs.
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