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'Godspeed my friend': Inside the final hours at Spirit Airlines

CNBC · May 2, 2026, 10:59 PM · Also reported by 4 other sources

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  • BALTIMORE/NEW YORK — Spirit Airlines was hours away from its final flights Friday afternoon.
  • "To tell you the truth, I just went online and Googled the cheapest airline ticket," he said, adding that he paid about $500 for the trip late last month.

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BALTIMORE/NEW YORK — Spirit Airlines was hours away from its final flights Friday afternoon. Jeremiah Burton was hours away from his first.

"It's my first time flying," Burton, a 45-year-old air conditioning and heating technician, told CNBC at Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport on Friday, shortly before he was scheduled to depart for New Orleans to visit his daughter and her newborn twins.

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