Spirit Airlines is preparing to stop flying. But the timing of a final decision is uncertain, .
But President Donald Trump says he鈥檚 still looking at a taxpayer-funded takeover of Spirit Airlines.
鈥淲e鈥檙e looking at it. If we could do it, we鈥檒l do it. But only if it鈥檚 a good deal,鈥� Trump told reporters on Friday as he prepared to leave the White House for a trip to Florida.
He didn鈥檛 offer any details about what proposal he was considering but said he鈥檇 like to save jobs at the airline, which has filed for bankruptcy twice in two years.
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Trump said his administration gave Spirit 鈥渁 final proposal鈥� and would make an announcement soon.
The discount airline, based in Broward County, is the largest airline operating out of the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, where it was responsible for 25% of the passenger flights in February.
The airline has been in bankruptcy protection since last August. It was its second bankruptcy in less than two years. It has remained operating during its bankruptcy reorganization.
The company has called back hundreds of pilots and flight attendants it furloughed over the past two years to replace employees who have left the airline while it's in bankruptcy. Spirit ended last year with 9,700 employees, down almost 20% from the previous year.
