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WELCOME ABOARD SPIRIT AIRLINES
Spirit Airlines is a United States low-cost carrier operating scheduled flights throughout the Americas. The airline is headquartered in Miramar, Florida, in the Miami metropolitan area. Spirit currently maintains bases in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, Detroit, and Atlantic City, New Jersey. Over half of the airline's flights are to destinations in the Bahamas, Caribbean, and Latin America. Spirit Airlines was founded in 1980 in as Charter One, a Detroit-based charter tour operator providing travel packages to entertainment destinations such as Atlantic City, Las Vegas and the Bahamas. In 1990, Charter One began scheduled service from Boston and Providence, R.I., to Atlantic City. On May 29, 1992, Charter One brought jet equipment into the fleet, changed its name to Spirit Airlines and inaugurated service from Detroit to Atlantic City. In April 1993, Spirit Airlines began scheduled service to destinations in Florida. During the next five years, Spirit expanded rapidly, increasing service from Detroit and adding service in new markets such as Myrtle Beach, S.C.; Los Angeles and New York. Starting in September 2008, Spirit aircraft became “air billboards.” Plans for advertising on the overhead bins, tray tables, seatback inserts and bulkheads are being rolled out at present. US Airways and Ryan Air are the first airlines to start advertising in the airplane, as well as the now defunct Skybus Airlines that also sold "branded airplanes" as full-body advertisement along the fuselage. A Bureau of Transportation Statistics report concluded that in 2008 Spirit had the highest number of complaints per passenger among U.S. airlines that carries more than 5 million passengers annually.
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