Spirit Airlines warns of going concern doubts

Months after emerging from bankruptcy, Spirit Airlines (FLYY)has warned of going concern doubts. In a regulatory filing, Spirit said: “The Company has continued to be affected by adverse market conditions, including elevated domestic capacity and continued weak demand for domestic leisure travel in the second quarter of 2025, resulting in a challenging pricing environment. As a result, the Company continues to experience challenges and uncertainties in its business operations and expects these trends to continue for at least the remainder of 2025. The Company has already taken certain measures to address these challenges, including the implementation of network and product enhancements, including its Premium Economy travel option, consummation of sale-leaseback transactions related to certain of its owned spare engines, and other discretionary cost reduction strategies, including the pilot furloughs announced in July 2025. After considering the measures taken, minimum liquidity covenants in the Company’s debt obligations and credit card processing agreement require financial results to improve at a rate faster than what the Company is currently anticipating. As a result, the Company plans to take additional liquidity enhancing measures, which may include the sale or other monetization of certain aircraft and real estate, the sale of excess airport gate capacity, elimination of certain fixed costs and other transactions to raise additional liquidity. The Company is in discussions with various stakeholders related to some of these future initiatives. The Company is also in discussions with representatives of its credit card processor, which has requested additional collateral to renew its credit card processing agreement, which expires on December 31, 2025. The level of collateral required to be posted could result in a material reduction of unrestricted cash. While it is the Company’s goal to execute on these initiatives, there can be no assurance that such initiatives will be successful. f these initiatives are unsuccessful, management believes it is probable that the Company will be unable to comply with the minimum liquidity covenants under the Company’s debt obligations and credit card processing agreement at some point in the next 12 months, which would result in an event of default. Because of the uncertainty of successfully completing the initiatives to comply with the minimum liquidity covenants and of the outcome of discussions with Company stakeholders, management has concluded there is substantial doubt as to the Company’s ability to continue as a going concern within 12 months from the date these financial statements are issued.”