Spirit Airlines Reconnects South Florida With the World

Spirit Airlines, Fort Lauderdale’s hometown airline, plans to operate a full schedule today, Thursday, October 27, 2005 bringing locals and visitors where they need to go.

"Spirit Airlines is committed to taking special care of our customers and our employees," said Ben Baldanza, President and Chief Operating Officer of Spirit Airlines. "I could not be more proud of our family of employees who are working together to serve our customers even while dealing with their personal challenges at their homes or for our employees out of South Florida who are showing such flexibility and support. We are the hometown airline and we run our company from here where we live. We had employees ready to start the operation as soon as Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport opened. Spirit Airlines is dedicated to help kick-start the tourism and economy here in South Florida as we offer more non-stop service than any other airline serving Fort Lauderdale."

  Operational Accomplishments      --  Flew 2 flights into West Palm Beach yesterday, 10/26, and then         positioned the airplanes to Fort Lauderdale to be able to fly         out 1st thing Thursday when Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood         International Airport opened      --  Will run a complete schedule today and are running full in and         out of Fort Lauderdale      --  Started rescue flights in and out of Cancun this morning; will         run 2 flights tomorrow      --  Spiritair.com and reservations line ran uninterrupted through         the storm and its aftermath helping locals and visitors to         book their travel needs  Local News      --  Spirit Airlines' headquarters is running on generator power      --  Supplies are being flown in from other markets      --  Hundreds of South Florida employees are back at work      --  Management serving lunch for workers at headquarters          --  Hamburgers yesterday          --  Fajitas today          --  Hot Dogs and brats tomorrow 

About Spirit Airlines

Founded in 1990, Fort Lauderdale-based Spirit Airlines is the best-capitalized, low fare Caribbean carrier with hubs in Detroit and in Fort Lauderdale, the largest low fare connecting hub in Florida. Spirit brings low fares and friendly service to 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 7 A319, 5 A321, and 17 MD-80 aircraft. For more information, fares, schedules and reservations visit www.spiritair.com or call 1-800-772-7117 (en Espanol, 1-800-756-7117).