REPORTED · WARN NOTICE✓ VERIFIEDPublished Jul 27, 2026

Spirit Airlines closure at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport leads to 25 layoffs

SOURCEOFFICIAL FILINGPennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry· filed October 31, 2025View the filing ↗

EMPLOYEES AFFECTED

SHARE OF WORKFORCE

~0.3%

EFFECTIVE DATE

Jan 1, 2026

25 OF 9,300 EMPLOYEES

What we know

Location: Arnold Palmer Regional Airport, Unity Township, Westmoreland County, Pennsylvania, USA (Cook County).

Department affected: reservations and above- and below-wing personnel.

A WARN notice for this layoff is recorded on October 31, 2025.

Industry: Passenger Air Transportation.

Disclosed through an official WARN filing with the PA state workforce agency.

Summary

Spirit Airlines' closure of service at Arnold Palmer Regional Airport resulted in the immediate layoff of 25 employees, including a reservationist and both above-wing and below-wing personnel; two additional employees had their hours reduced. The airport authority is evaluating the financial impact, which it estimated at about $100 million of the airport's roughly $200 million regional economic impact. The Transportation Security Administration issued a 90-day notice to pull out due to lack of commercial service, and the authority voted to consult bankruptcy counsel to protect its interests in Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy filing. Airport officials said it may be a few months before another carrier begins service and that TSA would likely take two to three months to return once commercial flights resume.

Spirit Airlines disclosed this layoff in an official WARN (Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification) notice recorded by the PA state workforce agency on October 31, 2025. The notice covers 25 employees in Schiller Park, PA (Cook County), with the layoff effective January 1, 2026.

That is roughly 0.3% of the 9,300 people Spirit Airlines employs.

LayoffTalk has tracked 33 layoff events at Spirit Airlines since December 2025, including 9,266 jobs documented in official WARN filings, with 18 additional events known from news reporting.