The Transportation Department said on Thursday it will fine Spirit Airlines as much as $375,000 for breaking consumer rules. The civil penalty includes $215,000 that the small discount airline must pay right away, and another $160,000 it would have to pay if it breaks its ...

A commercial airliner with 128 passengers and crew has made an emergency landing in Florida because smoke was detected in the cabin. The Spirit Airlines plane landed safely Tuesday afternoon at Daytona Beach International Airport, about 150 miles away from its intended destination of Fort ...

Flight attendants and pilots for Spirit Airlines Inc. want the company to pull a series of sexually suggestive advertisements, along with a new requirement they wear a Bud Light patch on service aprons. Patricia A. Friend, head of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA, complained in a letter ...