---
schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0000950103-25-004451"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "FLYYQ"
cik: "0001498710"
company_name: "Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc."
filed_at: "2025-04-07T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-05-23T19:34:58.172171+00:00"
event_type: "leadership"
sentiment: "negative"
materiality_score: 0.75
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Spirit CEO Ted Christie steps down; Office of 3 execs to lead; CCO replaced by Ghosh

## Summary
- Ted Christie, President and CEO, stepped down April 6; Board conducting search for permanent CEO.
- Office of the President formed: CFO Fred Cromer, COO John Bendoraitis, GC Thomas Canfield.
- Matt Klein, EVP & CCO, stepped down April 7; succeeded by Rana Ghosh as SVP & CCO.
- Christie and Klein receive severance per Spirit 2017 Executive Severance Plan.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0000950103-25-004451
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: FLYYQ
- cik: 0001498710
- company_name: Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc.
- filed_at: 2025-04-07T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: leadership
- sentiment: negative
- materiality_score: 0.75
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.75
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 5.02, 7.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1498710/000095010325004451/0000950103-25-004451-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1498710/000095010325004451/dp227316_8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-25-004451
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-25-004451.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0000950103-25-004451.txt

## Key facts
- Executive change
  Edward M. Christie, III departed as President, Chief Executive Officer and director at Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc..
  - Action: stepped down
  - Role: President, Chief Executive Officer and director
  source text: On April 6, 2025, Edward M. Christie, III, President, Chief Executive Officer and director of Spirit Aviation Holdings, Inc. (the “Company”), stepped down from his role with the Company and the Board of Directors (the “Board”).
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/1498710/000095010325004451/0000950103-25-004451-index.htm

This AI-assisted summary is a reading aid. Review the linked SEC EDGAR filing before relying on any specific claim.