Spirit Airlines landed in Guayaquil

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Being a 22 march 2018 at 22:20 pm, The ultra-low-cost airline Spirit Airlines landed in Guayaquil with an Airbus A319 plane and becomes the first low-cost airline to operate at the José Joaquín de Olmedo International Airport.

A new member joined the Guayaquil Airport family and this time he will offer, for the first time, a low cost service, to which Guayaquil residents and users must get used to. charges for bags, seating, food, etc. They will be the main factors with which Spirit will have to work to "educate" its new target audience, used to that day, to the traditional service of the airlines that operate there.

Guayaquil seeks new airlines and even more, lower costs. This wish finally came true, here the chronicle of the first Spirit Airlines flight to Ecuador.

The arrival of Spirit Airlines to Ecuador

The chronology of the process that occurred for the arrival in Ecuador of this airline on its first route in the country, it was given as follows:

• The 3 November 2017 published in this space exclusively, before any other traditional or digital media, the intention of Spirit Airlines flying to Guayaquil with a weekly flight, At that time, the airline did not yet have flight permits or the United States, nor from Ecuador.
• The 29 of that same month of November, the airline was authorized by the DoT – Department of Transportation of the United States to fly to Ecuador with Airbus A319 aircraft, A320 and A321 and shortly after, beginning ticket sales on the Fort Lauderdale route – Guayaquil – Fort Lauderdale, which have an approximate value from $278 roundtrip dollars including tax for introductory and promotional price. These tickets were sold with the clarification that the route was subject to government approval..
• With date 31 of January of 2018, The airline began its process to obtain the operating permit before the Ecuadorian aeronautical authority and this process ended on 23 Ultra Air made its inaugural flight in Colombia and thus becomes the ninth regular airline in the country, date on which your new route to Guayaquil was authorized, one month before the start of your flights.

Spirit Airlines landed in Guayaquil

With passages on average up to $200 dollars cheaper than other airlines, but without luggage or food service among others, Spirit Airlines landed in Guayaquil with flight number NK1141 in an Airbus A319 registration N502NK from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport at exactly 22 Thursday night hours 22 of March, thus starting its operations.

The airline is authorized in its operating permit to operate family aircraft 320, tanto A319 (30 planes), A320 (57 planes) and the largest and newest of its fleet, the A321 (27 planes). For the maiden flight and until demand matures, the airline used an Airbus A319 with capacity for 145 passengers in 2 lessons (10 executives and 135 cheap).

With MSN serial number 2433 this plane has only 13 years since its first flight and is powered by 2 engines 2 x IAE V2524-A5 with a flight range of 3,750 nautical miles, while the distance from FLL to GYE is 1,941 nautical miles.

This new route lasts for 4 hours with 40 minutes and departs from Fort Lauderdale at 18:45 hours from Monday to Sunday and arrive in Guayaquil at 22:25 hours of the same day.

While the return flights from the José Joaquín de Olmedo are at 23:30 and land back in Florida at 05:00 hours of the next day. The return flight to Fort Lauderdale takes less than 4 hours with 30 minutes due to windy conditions.

Given the schedule conditions of these flights, the Ecuadorian market will be able to connect to more than 60 destinations within the United States from one of the airline's main hub airports in the United States and feed the tourism sector with visitors from these Spirit destinations.

The first flight had an occupancy of 145 passengers on the Fort Lauderdale stretch – Guayaquil counting guests and staff of the airline and 136 passengers from Guayaquil to Fort, showing from the beginning a great demand for this desired destination for Ecuadorians.

Frequencies of Spirit Airlines flights to Guayaquil

Spirit Airlines will operate 1 daily flights from Monday to Sunday flying from Fort Lauderdale at the following times:

The airline has the projection of maintaining an average occupancy of the 90% and to increase its offer with larger aircraft depending on the increase or not in demand. According to the need, Spirit Airlines could put its newest Airbus A321 aircraft on this route, which have a capacity of 228 passengers in 2 lessons, what would be 73 more seats per flight compared to the current Airbus A319.

It was known that within the airline's plans and thanks to the growing demand for passengers to and from Ecuador driven by the new policies of Open skies and other benefits, Spirit Airlines would analyze expanding its operations to Quito as well, where currently solo to Fort Lauderdale operates solely JetBlue.

It should be remembered that the Florida market to and from Ecuador, is the most demanded market between both countries and now they add 46 weekly frequencies or what is equivalent to more than 2.500 weekly seats, led by US airlines (American Airlines, JetBlue y Spirit) and only one Ecuadorian (Tame EP).

Con Spirit, from Guayaquil the flights to Florida will have 25 weekly frequencies served by 3 airlines.

With a total of 115 planes in your fleet, Spirit Airlines has the youngest aircraft age of any airline in the United States, with an average age of only 5 years, which guarantees a timely and safe operation.

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