00:00Stranded passengers scrambled to find alternative travel after Spirit Airlines ceased operations
00:06on Saturday, becoming the first airline casualty linked to the Iran War.
00:11The collapse, driven by a surge in jet fuel prices as disruptions hit the Strait of Hormuz,
00:17underscores the wider impact of the conflict on global aviation.
00:22We got our flight canceled two times.
00:24First time was yesterday, and then they said to rebook the flight over again.
00:28And then we did, rebooked it, but then this morning when we got here,
00:32there was like, oh, we canceled all the flights because the Spirit shut them down.
00:36Yeah, we had to book new flights with a different airline.
00:39It's just been us here with three kids, two five-year-olds and 11-month-old,
00:44and we just went in the airport all night.
00:45First they told us that they were going to give us hotels, Uber, and food vouchers,
00:52but then they canceled and said that they couldn't give it to us,
00:55so we've just been sitting here all night.
00:57The collapse of Spirit Airlines is expected to cost thousands of jobs
01:01and deal a blow to U.S. President Donald Trump, who had proposed a $500 million rescue plan.
01:08However, U.S. Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said the government should not bail out
01:13low-cost carriers despite industry calls for $2.5 billion in aid to offset rising fuel costs.
01:26So they kept their financial aid and farmer.
01:29That's the end of the day.
01:30They saved two months to unit $2.5 billion in aid to $2.5 billion in aid to stop us.
01:30So they said that $5 billion in aid to $3 billion in aid to get better.
01:30So they said, we should be getting to get to some credit for their subscribers.
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01:31So they said that they didn't go to work for a new project that didn't come to work for a
01:31new project.
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