Retiring Spirit pilot whose final flight was canceled gets tribute from competitor airline ^3.1%

Fox Business - By Stephen Sorace - 5/3/2026, 5:34 PM

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A Spirit Airlines captain whose retirement flight was scrapped by the carrier’s sudden shutdown got an unexpected sendoff as a Southwest crew stepped in to honor his decades in the cockpit. Capt. Jon Jackson was supposed to fly his final trip before retirement but instead found himself seated in the back of a Southwest flight heading... more