Spirit Airlines launched two new routes from Phoenix during the second week of August. The ULCC introduced flights to New York EWR on Wednesday 9 August and Boston on Thursday 10 August. Both the 3.430-kilometre service to New York EWR and the 3,700-kilometre route to Boston will be maintained daily with the A320-family aircraft. What […]
August 14, 2023 | Latest Route News +
Louisville is the largest city in Kentucky, located on its northern edge on the Ohio River overlooking Indiana. It is famous as the birthplace of boxing legend Muhammad Ali and the home of the Kentucky Derby (an annual horse race). The airport is only a few kilometres south of downtown. The airport’s three-letter IATA code […]
July 27, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Located just outside of Manchester in New Hampshire, close to the state border with Massachusetts, Manchester-Boston Regional Airport is just over 70 kilometres north of Boston Logan Airport. Back in 2005 it handled almost 4.3 million passengers, with Southwest the dominant airline. Other carriers present at the time were Air Canada, Continental, Delta, Independence Air, […]
July 14, 2022 | Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Spirit (IATA code NK) has started serving Salt Lake City in Utah for the first time. On 26 May, the ULCC began daily service from Los Angeles and Orlando MCO, and 2-daily service from Las Vegas. All three routes are already well served by other carriers: Las Vegas: Delta (35-weekly), Southwest (33-weekly), Frontier (4-weekly) Los […]
June 2, 2022 | Latest Route News +
Spirit on 1 March launched flights to its third destination in Puerto Rico. The ULCC now connects Orlando MCO and Ponce with daily flights using A319s, although the inaugural flight was operated by one of the airline’s A320neos. Competition on the 1,900-kilometre route comes from JetBlue, which first started service on the route in May […]
March 3, 2022 | Latest Route News +
The recent announcement that America’s two biggest ULCCs, Frontier and Spirit, plan to merge came as something of a surprise to many in the industry. However, with similar business models and significant fleet commonality it makes a lot of sense. The combined entity would become the fifth biggest carrier in the US behind the big […]
February 11, 2022 | Airlines, News & Analysis, North America, Top Story
Air Service One data partner, RDC Aviation is an industry leader in providing air service development data that is positioned to investigate and analyse air service route strengths and weaknesses. Spirit Airlines route profitability Apr 2021 to Sep 2021 With today’s announcement that Spirit and Frontier airlines are set to merge, the table below from Apex, shows […]
February 7, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, North America
Spirit this week announced its first ever flights to Salt Lake City (and also the state of Utah) starting on 26 May. It will operate daily service to Los Angeles and Orlando and 2-daily service to Las Vegas. It will face significant competition on each route. The US ULCC has been growing its footprint in […]
January 28, 2022 | Airlines, Airports, North America
For almost two decades, Fort Lauderdale has been Spirit Airlines’s biggest base of operations, sometimes welcoming more than twice as many flights as its nearest rival. That may be set to change in 2022 now that Spirit has launched its first flights (to nine destinations) from nearby Miami on Wednesday 6 October. As a result, […]
October 19, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, News & Analysis, North America
Thursday 24 June 2021 saw Spirit Airlines begin service at Milwaukee’s Mitchell International Airport in Wisconsin. The ULCC began daily service to Las Vegas, Los Angeles and Orlando using its A320s. During the celebrations at the airport, the airline announced four new, daily, domestic routes starting 17 November (to Fort Lauderdale, Fort Myers, Phoenix and […]
June 25, 2021 | Latest Route News +
The Airline CEO Heavyweights session at Routes Americas 2021 yesterday brought together leaders from Spirit Airlines, Frontier Airlines, and the US Travel Association to discuss some of the challenges brought by the pandemic and how they have managed to remain in a relatively favourable position to weather the crisis. Sharing some of the key lessons […]
June 24, 2021 | Airlines, Airports, North America
Spirit Airlines added Louisville in Kentucky to its ever-expanding US network when it launched four routes from the airport on 27 May. Fort Lauderdale and Orlando MCO in Florida, as well as Las Vegas and Los Angeles, will all be served daily. The Los Angeles connection is a new destination for the airport. The other […]
June 4, 2021 | Airlines, North America, Top Story