Employer · WARN Act history · Transportation & Warehousing
Spirit Airlines
5,247 workers across 6 WARN notices, primarily in FL - recorded in the current PlainLayoffs dataset.
- 5,247
- Workers cut
- 6
- WARN notices
- 3
- States
- 875
- Avg / notice
Spirit Airlines has 6 recorded WARN filings affecting 5,247 workers
According to WARN Act filings submitted to state workforce agencies, Spirit Airlines has 6 recorded filings covering 5,247 workers across 3 states, primarily FL, the 24th-largest recorded WARN footprint among 7,009 tracked employers. WARN notices cover qualifying reported events, so this record is not a complete count of the employer's workforce changes.
Spirit Airlines accounts for 3.3% of Transportation & Warehousing's 158,362 WARN-laid-off workers across 311 tracked employers in the dataset — #6 in Transportation & Warehousing by workers affected.
How 5,247 workers split by filing year
Calendar-year totals from WARN notice_date fields in this dataset, the same figures summed in the notice history below.
Spirit Airlines WARN workers by state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, grouped by the state agency that received the notice, not a corporate headcount by HQ state.
Spirit Airlines WARN workers by year and state
Sum of workers_affected on each filing row, crossed by calendar year and filing state, for the top 3 states by total workers affected.
| Year | FL | TX | MD | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2026 | 2,529 | – | 13 | 2,542 |
| 2025 | 171 | – | – | 171 |
| 2024 | 2,400 | – | – | 2,400 |
| 2022 | – | 134 | – | 134 |
Spirit Airlines city concentration · concentrated
Named cities on WARN filing rows only (city blank on a filing is omitted). Shares are of the city-tagged worker total, not every notice in the record.
Fort Lauderdale accounts for 50.1% of Spirit Airlines's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 98.4%.
Lead city Fort Lauderdale · 50.1% · 5 named cities · top-3 share 98.4%
DOL WARN employer filing desk
Employer SPIRIT-AIRLI · Spirit Airlines 5,247 workers · 6 filings
NOTC-MID · WORK-TOP · PHOTO-UNK · RUNWAY-OVER · STAT-MULTI · BOOK-MULTI · TYPE-MIX
- NOTC-MID 6 filings
- WORK-TOP #24
- PHOTO-UNK No peer
- RUNWAY-OVER 21d
- STAT-MULTI 3 states
- BOOK-MULTI 4 agencies
- TYPE-MIX 1C/5L
Stamps derive from filed notice_date, effective_date, workers_affected, state agency source, and filing type in this dataset, not a prediction of future layoffs.
Largest Spirit Airlines WARN filings · notice runway
Top 5 rows by workers_affected from this employer's filed notices. Runway = calendar days from notice_date to effective_date when both are published and forward-dated.
- Fort Lauderdale, FL · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 2,529 workers · filed May 4, 2026 · retroactive dates
- Miramar, FL · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 2,400 workers · filed Nov 18, 2024 · 0d runway
- Dallas, TX · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 134 workers · filed Aug 19, 2022 · 42d runway
- Fort Lauderdale, FL · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 100 workers · filed Sep 30, 2025 · 62d runway
- Miami, FL · Layoff · Transportation & Warehousing 71 workers · filed Sep 25, 2025 · 67d runway
Median forward runway across 6 dated filings: 21 days (4 under 60d · 2 at/above 60d · 3 same-day or retroactive).
What changed - Spirit Airlines WARN filings by year
Computed from filed notice dates in this dataset (calendar years), not a vendor release label. Latest compared pair: .
- 2025 → 2026: WARN workers affected for Spirit Airlines rose from 171 in 2025 to 2,542 in 2026; notice count held from 2 to 2.
- 2022 → 2024: WARN workers affected for Spirit Airlines rose from 134 in 2022 to 2,400 in 2024; notice count held from 1 to 1.
- 2024 → 2025: WARN workers affected for Spirit Airlines fell from 2,400 in 2024 to 171 in 2025; notice count rose from 1 to 2.
Site-wide YoY movers: /changes (RSS). Dataset corrections: /changelog. Year hubs: /year/2026.
Where Spirit Airlines Falls Among Tracked Employers
7,009 employers with a WARN filing, bucketed by total workers affected
Bucket counts (employers by total workers affected, as of September 2026): 1-10: 955; 11-50: 1,411; 51-150: 3,067; 151-500: 1,205; 501-1.5k: 273; 1.5k-5k: 72; 5k-15k: 16; 15k+: 10. Spirit Airlines is in the 5k-15k bucket (#24 of 7,009 by workers affected).
Employer Profile
- Primary State
- FL
- Primary Industry
- Transportation & Warehousing
- First Notice
- Aug 19, 2022
- Latest Notice
- May 4, 2026
Not all layoffs appear in WARN data, see our methodology for the federal + state coverage thresholds. Latest filing: May 2026.
WARN Notice History
2026
Anne Arundel, MD · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: May 2, 2026
13
workers
Filed May 4, 2026
Fort Lauderdale, FL · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: May 2, 2026
2,529
workers
Filed May 4, 2026
2025
Fort Lauderdale, FL · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Dec 1, 2025
100
workers
Filed Sep 30, 2025
Miami, FL · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Dec 1, 2025
71
workers
Filed Sep 25, 2025
2024
Miramar, FL · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Nov 18, 2024
2,400
workers
Filed Nov 18, 2024
2022
Dallas, TX · Transportation & Warehousing
Effective: Sep 30, 2022
134
workers
Filed Aug 19, 2022
Questions about this Spirit Airlines record
What is the largest Spirit Airlines WARN filing on record? ▼
The largest row is the mass layoff filed for Fort Lauderdale, FL on May 4, 2026, covering 2,529 workers in Transportation & Warehousing.
Where were Spirit Airlines's WARN notices filed? ▼
The filings name Anne Arundel, Fort Lauderdale, and Miami, among 5 named cities; together they form 1 facility closure and 5 mass-layoff filings sourced from Maryland DLLR and Florida Commerce and the public WARN archive and Texas Workforce Commission. States represented in this record: FL, MD, TX.
Where is Spirit Airlines's WARN footprint concentrated by city? ▼
Fort Lauderdale accounts for 50.1% of Spirit Airlines's named-city WARN workers; the top three cities hold 98.4%.
Does Spirit Airlines's filing history show a recurring pattern? ▼
The filing history spans 2022 through 2026 across 4 calendar years; that recurrence is visible in the dated rows rather than inferred from news coverage.
How much advance notice appears in Spirit Airlines's record? ▼
The measurable notice runway clears the federal 60-day baseline; use the dated filing history to see which location and event produced it. Of 6 filings on record, 2 dated effective before the notice itself and 1 without a published effective date are excluded from that figure.
See also: FL WARN filings · Transportation & Warehousing industry WARNs · WARN Act guide · largest WARN employers
Source: State WARN Act layoff registries Spirit Airlines notice history aggregated from state workforce agency filings · September 2026 A WARN filing is a required notice, not a judgment of the employer's management or finances. Coverage follows states with structured public registries; this public-record summary is not legal advice, financial advice, or employment advice.
Every figure on PlainLayoffs is rendered directly from public WARN Act filings and state workforce agency records, no number is typed in by an editor. This employer's notice history is rendered directly from state WARN Act filings. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of September 2026. A WARN filing is a legally required notice, not a judgment of a company's management or financial health; rankings here reflect filed notice volume only.