Spirit Airlines has filed for bankruptcy protection and will attempt to reboot as it struggles to recover from the pandemic-caused swoon in travel and a failed attempt to sell the airline to JetBlue.

Spirit Airlines is about to roll out tickets that include perks like free snacks and no fee for checking a bag.

JetBlue and Spirit Airlines are ending their proposed $3.8 billion merger after a federal judge blocked the deal, ruling it would hurt competition.

JetBlue's $3.8 billion bid to buy Spirit Airlines has been endorsed by two firms that advise major investors on how to vote.

Score one for JetBlue in the dogfight over who gets to buy Spirit Airlines.

The list of canceled or delayed flights was long all day Sunday at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Spirit Airlines is putting numbers on a damaging stretch of flight cancellations this summer.

Separately, key members of Congress said they are investigating aviation contractors that took federal payroll aid and then laid off thousands of workers. Airlines and airline contractors who received cash from a $32 billion pool of federal payroll aid agreed not to lay off workers until Oct. 1. Airline labor unions are lobbying Congress for six more months of federal aid. Some contractors who received money laid off workers anyway, according to three Democrats in the U.S. House of Representatives. At Spirit, the pilots union said it was notified Wednesday that 806 pilots could be furloughed, or terminated with rehiring rights.