{"id":2598540,"date":"2026-05-04T13:12:02","date_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spirit-airlines-wasnt-destined-to-prosper-byron-york\/"},"modified":"2026-05-04T13:13:19","modified_gmt":"2026-05-04T17:13:19","slug":"spirit-airlines-wasnt-destined-to-prosper-byron-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spirit-airlines-wasnt-destined-to-prosper-byron-york\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines wasn\u2019t \u2018destined to prosper\u2019: Byron York"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fspirit-airlines-wasnt-destined-to-prosper-byron-york%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2598540&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>Byron York of the *Washington Examiner* said Spirit Airlines was not \u201cdestined to prosper\u201d after its long-running financial collapse, arguing the company couldn\u2019t compete and had already been through bankruptcy twice. He criticized attempts to secure a $500 million bailout from the Trump management as an ill-fitting use of government help. After announcing it would shut down, Spirit canceled all flights and told customers <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/he-thought-he-lost-730000-on-robinhood-and-killed-himself-now-his-parents-are-suing\/\" title=\"He Thought He Lost 0,000 On Robinhood And Killed Himself. Now His Parents Are Suing.\">customer service<\/a> would not be available, <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >citing rising oil prices<\/a> as part of the reason for ending operations.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<article class=\"fn-body\">\n<p><em>Washington Examiner<\/em> chief political correspondent Byron York said that <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/policy\/infrastructure\/4552024\/airlines-help-spirit-if-operations-cease\/\">Spirit Airlines<\/a> wasn\u2019t \u201cdestined to prosper,\u201d after the company <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/4552435\/spirit-airline-shut-down-all-flights-canceled\/\">announced it would shut down<\/a> following years of struggles. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere you just had the market working,\u201d York said on <em>Fox &#038; Friends <\/em>on Monday. \u201cSpirit was in bankruptcy twice. It had an ever-diminishing share of passengers, and it was just not destined to prosper; that\u2019s just all there is to it.\u201d <\/p>\n<section class=\"explore-more-section\" id=\"wex-recommended-widget\">\n<div class=\"magazine-container single\">\n<h1 class=\"magazine-title mt-2\">Recommended Stories<\/h1>\n<p>             <i class=\"fa-solid fa-play icon\"><\/i>         <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-grid\">\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/4552904\/concha-billionaire-backed-may-day-protests-snort-irony\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Joe Concha blasts billionaire-backed May Day protests: \u2018You could snort the irony\u2019<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/business\/4552435\/spirit-airline-shut-down-all-flights-canceled\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Spirit in the sky: Spirit Airlines shuts down operations with all flights canceled<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<div class=\"explore-card\">                         <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/white-house\/4551485\/trump-final-proposal-spirit-airlines-shut-down\/?itm_source=parsely-api\">                             <\/p>\n<div class=\"explore-thumb-wrap\">                                                                                                                                  <\/div>\n<h3>Trump says \u2018we gave them a final proposal\u2019 as Spirit Airlines readies to shut down<\/h3>\n<p>                         <\/a>                     <\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/section>\n<p>The announcement comes after the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/travel-chaos-as-u-s-airlines-cancel-3500-flights-over-weekend\/\" title=\"Travel Chaos as U.S. Airlines Cancel 3,500+ Flights over Weekend\">airlines failed<\/a> to secure a $500 million bailout from the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\">Trump administration<\/a>. Leading up to the decision, the airline filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy twice, once in November 2024 and again in August 2025. <\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/spirit-airlines-shuts-down-operations-with-all-flights-canceled-after-bailout-fails\/\" title=\"... shuts down operations with all flights canceled after bailout fails\">airline blamed rising oil prices<\/a> for the decision to end operations. <\/p>\n<p>York attributed Spirit\u2019s ill fate to the airline\u2019s inability to compete. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cA lot of companies just don\u2019t survive if they cannot compete in the market, and that\u2019s what you had here,\u201d York said. <\/p>\n<p>Moments after the announcement, Spirit canceled all flights and notified customers that customer service would not be available. <\/p>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/op-eds\/4549456\/taxpayers-on-hook-spirit-airlines-bailout\/\"><strong>DON\u2019T PUT TAXPAYERS ON THE HOOK FOR SUBSIDIZING LOW-BUDGET AIRLINES<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>York agreed with other conservatives who didn\u2019t support the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to help Spirit by providing a bailout, saying it \u201cdidn\u2019t make much sense\u201d for the federal government to intervene. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cSpirit was dying and had been,\u201d York said. \u201cIt was down to almost nothing, so you have to think what is going to be the overall market effect of doing this versus the idea of the government coming to take over or save an airline didn\u2019t seem to make a lot of sense from the administration\u2019s point of view.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Byron York said Spirit wasn\u2019t \u201cdestined to prosper.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3984,"featured_media":2598541,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26122607951865_b0550b.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651],"tags":[14743,6672,5894,45214,8068],"class_list":["post-2598540","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","tag-aviation","tag-commentary","tag-politics","tag-spirit-airlines","tag-transportation"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/AP26122607951865_b0550b.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598540","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3984"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2598540"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598540\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2598544,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2598540\/revisions\/2598544"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2598541"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2598540"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2598540"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2598540"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}