{"id":72968,"date":"2026-05-02T16:04:44","date_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:04:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/political-blame-game-begins-and-passengers-left-adrift-after-spirit-ceases-operations\/"},"modified":"2026-05-02T16:04:44","modified_gmt":"2026-05-02T21:04:44","slug":"political-blame-game-begins-and-passengers-left-adrift-after-spirit-ceases-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/political-blame-game-begins-and-passengers-left-adrift-after-spirit-ceases-operations\/","title":{"rendered":"Political blame game begins and passengers left adrift after Spirit ceases operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans blame Biden administration block on JetBlue deal; Democrats point to fuel price surge amid Iran war<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/news\/2026\/feb\/17\/sign-up-for-the-breaking-news-us-email-to-get-newsletter-alerts-direct-to-your-inbox?utm_medium=ACQUISITIONS_STANDFIRST&amp;utm_campaign=BN22326&amp;utm_content=signup&amp;utm_term=standfirst&amp;utm_source=GUARDIAN_WEB\">Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email<\/a><em> <\/em><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>US airlines and government officials battled on Saturday to deal with stranded passengers and stricken employees after discount carrier Spirit Airlines abruptly <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/01\/spirit-airlines-stops-operation-after-failed-deal\">ceased operations<\/a> \u2013 and a political and business blame game got under way over the collapse of the low-cost carrier.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf you have a flight scheduled with Spirit Airlines, don\u2019t show up at the airport; there will be no one here to assist you,\u201d the US secretary of transportation, Sean Duffy, warned at a press conference after laying out measures for customers booked with the Florida-based company to obtain refunds or find discounted flights on other airlines.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/business\/2026\/may\/02\/spirit-airlines-ceases-operations-blame\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Republicans blame Biden administration block on JetBlue deal; Democrats point to fuel price surge amid Iran war Sign up for the Breaking News US newsletter email US airlines and government officials battled on Saturday to deal with stranded passengers and stricken employees after discount carrier Spirit Airlines abruptly ceased operations \u2013 and a political and &#8230; <a title=\"Political blame game begins and passengers left adrift after Spirit ceases operations\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/02\/political-blame-game-begins-and-passengers-left-adrift-after-spirit-ceases-operations\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Political blame game begins and passengers left adrift after Spirit ceases operations\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-72968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=72968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/72968\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=72968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=72968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=72968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}