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Spirit Airlines Reports July 2005 Traffic Load Factor Reaches 84.1%

Posted on: Monday, 8 August 2005, 15:00 CDT

Spirit Airlines reports July traffic. Last month, Spirit carried 476,782 passengers, 0.6% more than the same period last year. Spirit achieved an 84.1% load factor, which was 0.3 point lower than July 2004. Revenue Passenger Miles (RPMs) reached 448,852,000, 8.4% fewer than last July, and Available Seat Miles (ASMs) reached 533,988,000, 7.9% fewer than June last year.

"Passenger demand for our service continues to be robust as evidenced by our load factor," said Ben Baldanza, President and Chief Operating Officer of Spirit Airlines. "Looking into the late summer and fall, bookings continue to be strong. We look forward to growing our Caribbean service this November with more non-stops to Nassau, Cancun, and new service to both Montego Bay and Kingston, Jamaica." Spirit Airlines July 2005 Traffic Figures 2005 2004 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- July YTD July YTD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Passengers Carried 476,782 3,085,995 474,161 2,858,674 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RPM's (000) 448,852 2,942,755 489,856 2,957,695 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ASM's (000) 533,988 3,607,349 580,078 3,780,019 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Load Factor 84.1% 81.6% 84.4% 78.2% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Month Change YTD Change ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Amount % Amount % ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Passengers Carried 2,621 .6% 227,321 8.0% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- RPM's (000) (41,004) -8.4% (14,940) -.5% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ASM's (000) (46,090) -7.9% (172,670) -4.6% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Load Factor (.3) -.4% 3.4 4.3% ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Table excludes charter activity.

About Spirit Airlines

Founded in 1990, Fort Lauderdale-based Spirit Airlines is the largest privately-held airline in the U.S., bringing low fares and friendly service to 20 cities in the United States, Bahamas and the Caribbean with 125 daily flights.

In addition to comfortable Coach class service, Spirit offers Spirit Plus, a low cost business class with 2-by-2 leather seating with an extra 6 inches of legroom vs coach in the Airbus fleet, complimentary cocktails and snacks.

Spirit is currently bringing in a new fleet of Airbus aircraft and plans to have completed its fleet renewal by early 2007. Spirit currently has 6 A319, 5 A321, and 22 MD-80 aircraft.

For more information, fares, schedules and reservations visit http://www.spiritair.com or call 1-800-772-7117 (en Espanol, 1-800-756-7117).

Source: Business Wire

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