President Donald Trump told reporters at the White House Friday that the administration will likely announce its decision on whether to bail out Spirit Airlines “today or tomorrow.”
The long-troubled budget carrier is preparing to stop operations, according to reports on Friday, a move that could leave millions of Spirit passengers trapped across the country and 17,000 employees out of work.
“Well, we’re looking at it — but if we can’t make a good deal, no institution’s been able to do it,” Trump said on Friday. “I’d like to save the jobs, but we’ll have an announcement sometime today. We gave them, we gave them a final proposal.”
Earlier Friday, a Spirit Airlines spokesperson told CNN it had no direct comment on possible shutdown reports.
“Spirit is operating as usual,” said the spokesperson. As of the time of publication, Spirit Airlines appeared to be operating normally.
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