Spirit To Suspend 37 Routes from Its Network in January
The ultra-low-cost carrier is axing the routes from early January due to supply chain pressures
by Fergus Cole
November 18, 2022
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Low-cost carrier Spirit Airlines will suspend 37 routes from its network in January 2023, citing severe supply chain woes. The Miami-based airline will be scrapping the routes from its schedule starting next year, with Fort Lauderdale, Orlando, Miami, Fort Myers, and Tampa as some of its most affected locations.
The airline’s CEO, Ted Christie, says Spirit is facing “supply chain-related issues on aircraft deliveries and supply chain-related issues on engine manufacturing and engine overhaul, which is forcing us to take aircraft out of service.”
Christie adds that, because of these shortages, the airline is “losing active airplanes, which is the primary driver of the reduction in [capacity].”
The airline operates a fleet of 187 aircraft, including 31 Airbus A319, 126 A320, and 30 A321 aircraft. Spirit operates a mix of A320ceo and neo jets, averaging 7.2 years of age.
Spirit has released its reduced flight schedule, which should remain in place until May 2023. However, the airline notes this suspension should be temporary, hoping to resume its regular schedule by the busy summer season.
As noted by the airline, the routes that will be suspended from early January are as follows:
From Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI) to:
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)
- Myrtle Beach International Airport (MYR)
From Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL) to:
- Bradley International Airport (BDL)
- Arnold Palmer Regional Airport (LBE)
- Manchester-Boston Region Airport (MHT)
- Tocumen International Airport Panama (PTY)
- Louisville Muhammad Ali International Airport (SDF)
- St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL)
From Houston’s George Bush Intercontinental Airport (IAH) to:
- Denver International Airport (DEN)
- Guatemala City’s La Aurora International Airport (GUA)
From Los Angeles International Airport (LAX) to:
- Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE)
From Orlando International Airport (MCO) to:
- Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)
- El Salvador International Airport (SAL)
From Miami International Airport (MIA) to:
- Atlantic City International Airport (ACY)
- Bradley International Airport (BDL)
- Orlando International Airport (MCO)
From Philadelphia International Airport (PHL) to:
- Puerto Rico’s Rafael Hernandez Marin International Airport (BQN)
- Louis Armstrong New Orleans International Airport (MSY)
From Phoenix Sky Harbor International Airport (PHX) to:
- Kansas City International Airport (MCI)
- Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE)
- St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL)
From Fort Myers’ Southwest Florida International Airport (RSW) to:
- Bradley International Airport (BDL)
- Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI)
- Cleveland Hopkins International Airport (CLE)
- John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH)
- Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)
- Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)
- St. Louis Lambert International Airport (STL)
From San Juan’s Luis Munoz Marin International Airport (SJU) to:
- Atlantic City International Airport (ACY)
From Tampa International Airport (TPA) to:
- Bradley International Airport (BDL)
- Boston Logan International Airport (BOS)
- John Glenn Columbus International Airport (CMH)
- Newark Liberty International Airport (EWR)
- Arnold Palmer Regional Airport (LBE)
- Milwaukee Mitchell International Airport (MKE)
- Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP)
- Philadelphia International Airport (PHL)
