Several thousand former unionized flight attendants at defunct Spirit Airlines have asked a U.S. Bankruptcy Court to pay them millions, alleging management failed to notify them of layoffs on time under federal law and their labor contract.
Separately, a South Florida employee who lost his job with a contract ground services firm that did work for Spirit has sued his former employer on similar grounds: that it failed to provide adequate notice that the employee would lose his job.
“The Debtor’s failure to provide its AFA-represented employees with advance notice of their layoffs created substantial hardships,” according to a motion filed on behalf of the Association of Flight Attendants-CWA with the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in New York on May 23.
“When they went to sleep on May 1, 2026, the Debtor’s employees reasonably expected they would wake up on May 2nd and continue their employment with the income and benefits their jobs provided to support them and their families,” the motion adds. “Instead, Spirit shut down overnight, stranding flight attendants who were away from home, working trips. The next day, rather than showing up at the airport to fly people all around the country, flight attendants found themselves unemployed with no income or health insurance.”
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