Florida’s Spirit Airlines to launch Miami base in 4Q21

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Spirit Airlines (NK, Fort Lauderdale Int’l) has announced it will open a base at Miami Int’l airport on October 6, 2021, gradually launching 30 new routes from the Floridan gateway without affecting capacity at its nearby Fort Lauderdale Int’l base. “We are the largest airline at FLL, and we intend to stay that way… The demand is there to support growth throughout South Florida. Our flying out of MIA is in support of continued expansion in the region,” the carrier told Routes Online. According to the ch-aviation schedules module, the ultra-low-cost-carrier will initially launch the following routes on October 6:

  • Atlanta Hartsfield Jackson (daily),
  • Atlantic City (daily),
  • Baltimore Thurgood Marshall (daily),
  • Bogotá (daily),
  • Guatemala City (4x weekly),
  • Medellín José Maria Córdova (daily),
  • New York Newark (daily),
  • Port au Prince (daily),
  • San Salvador Int’l (3x weekly), and
  • Santo Domingo Las Américas (daily).
  • The base will be significantly expanded starting

The base will be significantly expanded starting on November 17, when Spirit Airlines plans to add the following services to its nascent Miami network:

  • Barranquilla;
  • Chicago O’Hare;
  • Cleveland Hopkins;
  • Dallas/Fort Worth;
  • Denver Int’l;
  • Detroit Metropolitan;
  • Hartford Bradley;
  • Houston Hobby;
  • Las Vegas McCarran;
  • Myrtle Beach Int’l;
  • New York La Guardia;
  • Orlando Int’l;
  • Philadelphia Int’l;
  • Raleigh/Durham;
  • San José Juan Santamaría;
  • San Juan Luis Muñoz Marin;
  • San Pedro Sula;
  • St. Thomas Cyril E. King.

All of these routes will operate daily except for services to La Guardia (2x daily), San José (4x weekly), and St. Thomas (3x weekly). Spirit Airlines will use a mix of A319-100s and A320-200s to operate its routes from Miami. The ULCC does not currently serve Miami but intends to become the second-largest operator at the airport, behind American Airlines, once its base is operational. It is already the largest carrier at Fort Lauderdale Int’l airport, where it has a 33.2% market share by scheduled departures, the ch-aviation capacities module indicates.

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