DFWLECNOW

I hear the international route is going to be KEF to compete with Baldanza's WowAir.

G4IND

hahaha

Halon1211

https://www.bizjournals.com/southflo...-from-fll.html

The international route I have been talking about. (UIO)

FML666

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Doesnt matter how many bases this place has, they wont be able to staff any of them.

G4IND

Not much to the article anyway....

"Spirit Airlines Inc. has been waiting for years to add more international flights at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL), CEO Bob Fornaro said on a recent earnings call. Now, the Miramar-based discount airline will get its chance.

"You'll see that coming in the later part of the year," Fornaro said after the company (Nasdaq: SAVE) released its third quarter earnings Oct. 26.

Spirit hasn't made any announcements on what those international destinations may be. But Fornaro said the company is scoping out opportunities in large and midsize cities with a healthy share of tourists.

Part of the reason is that the company's operating costs are much less than those of large carriers, so it can undercut fares for price-conscious vacationers.

"We're competing against giants," Fornaro said. "Large carriers can't price the markets for the typical leisure customer; that's why the opportunity is in large markets, rather than small markets."

With more international flights out of FLL, Spirit would be adding pathways in its largest market, where it already has 28 percent of its total capacity and most of its existing international flight capacity. The carrier has no flights out of Miami International Airport, Florida's top airport for international flights."

That is all that was said...

FML666

More Port Au Potty-type destinations just might lure me back to FLL...

G4IND

Did you mean GYE?
https://www.regulations.gov/document...2017-0180-0001

"Spirit intends to initially offer daily round-trip scheduled air service between Ft. Lauderdale, Florida and Guayaquil, Ecuador using Airbus A319 aircraft with 144 seats"

"will be prepared to begin service on March 15, 2018 if it receives all needed government approvals"

Halon1211

Yeah, I got the country right atleast (Ecuador). I was looking at GYE and it's not too bad of a town. Right on the beach, always warm weather and town looks pretty cool kinda colorful like somewhere in the Caribbean. (Look at it on Lonelyplanet.com. It's gunna have to be an approx. 24 hour layover for us of you look at the flight times. (Pretty close)

More DOT docs should be coming out soon.
Spirit will be filing for :

FLL-POS 7X week

IAH-SDQ 7X weekly

DFW-CLO 4X weekly

Halon1211

Apparently management was already looking at the hotels for us. One of which was an all-inclusive-resort on the beach, 2 for 1 appetizers specials. Cabaret across the street that provides job opportunities for midgets.