Spirit Airlines

  • Fort Lauderdale
  • Detroit

Spirit Airlines is an American low-cost airline based in Miramar, Florida.

History

Spirit Airlines was founded in 1980 as Charter One in Eastpointe and initially served only regional objectives.

In 2006, Spirit Free Spirit frequent flyer program before, on 25 January 2007 they ordered 30 aircraft of the type Airbus A319 -100 and was therefore the purchaser of the 5000th aircraft from the Airbus A320 family. In the meantime, the Company changed its corporate design including painting its fleet by a black / silver scheme in a white / blue.

Spirit Airlines pursued as low cost airline a comparatively radical no-frills approach, as for example, are not only seat assignments, meals on board and checked baggage in addition to pay, but already the hand luggage.

Destinations

Spirit offers scheduled domestic and international flights to about 40 destinations, of which about one-third of lead and in the Caribbean, and Central America. Spirit has its main bases at the Detroit Airport and the Fort Lauderdale- Hollywood International Airport and to a lesser extent in some other airports.

Fleet

As of January 2014, the fleet of 54 aircraft consists Spirit Airlines with an average age of 5.2 years:

IATA-Code International Civil Aviation Organization airport code International Securities Identification Number Eastpointe, Michigan Middle America (region)
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