{"id":649526,"date":"2025-10-17T11:42:29","date_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:12:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=649526"},"modified":"2025-10-17T12:18:59","modified_gmt":"2025-10-17T06:48:59","slug":"spirit-airlines-layoffs-in-motion-us-airline-operator-to-furlough-365-pilots-move-to-cut-100-million-in-pilot-costs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/spirit-airlines-layoffs-in-motion-us-airline-operator-to-furlough-365-pilots-move-to-cut-100-million-in-pilot-costs\/","title":{"rendered":"Spirit Airlines layoffs in motion: US airline operator to furlough 365 pilots; move to cut $100 million in pilot costs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit Airlines announced on Thursday its decision to furlough 365 pilots and downgrade the status of up to 170 pilots in the first quarter of 2026, as part of a broader workforce reduction strategy amid ongoing restructuring efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The ultra-low-cost carrier, which filed for bankruptcy for the second time in a year this past August, informed the pilots&#8217; union of its intention to cut $100 million in annual pilot-related expenses to preserve cash reserves, reported Reuters. &#8220;In line with our ongoing restructuring, we are implementing further measures to align staffing levels with our previously announced capacity reductions and a smaller operating fleet,&#8221; Spirit Airlines stated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spirit Airlines announced on Thursday its decision to furlough 365 pilots and downgrade the status of up to 170 pilots in the first quarter of 2026, as part of a broader workforce reduction strategy amid ongoing restructuring efforts. The ultra-low-cost carrier, which filed for bankruptcy for the second time in a year this past August, informed the pilots&#8217; union of its intention to cut $100 million in annual pilot-related expenses to preserve cash reserves, reported Reuters. &#8220;In line with our ongoing restructuring, we are implementing further measures to align staffing levels with our previously announced capacity reductions and a smaller [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[220,130,137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-649526","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-civil-aviation-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649526","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=649526"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/649526\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649526"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=649526"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=649526"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}