Since announcing that it was filing for Chapter 11 protection in November 2024, Spirit Airlines (SAVE) has continued flying on more or less the same schedule.
While certain routes out of Los Angeles, Houston and Philadelphia were recently cut for more profitable ones, the low-cost carrier has also launched a number of new flights to tropical destinations like Costa Rica and Puerto Rico from regional U.S. cities.
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Spirit Airlines’ Spring Break destinations include Pensacola, Dominican Republic and San Juan
Spirit’s latest network expansion further focuses on sunny places commonly visited during Spring Break.
In March 2025, the airline will start running two weekly flights between Baltimore and the Dominican Republican resort town of Punta Cana and two weekly flights between San Antonio and Puerto Rico’s San Juan.
The newly-released Spring Break schedule also has new routes to South Carolina’s Myrtle Beach from Kentucky’s Louisville and Pensacola, Florida from Detroit. These flights will start running four and three times a week on March 19 and 22, respectively.
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The flight between San Antonio and San Juan will launch first on March 5 while the others will debut later in the same month.
The new service also includes a thrice-weekly route between Chicago’s O’Hare International (ORD) and Pensacola, as well as one between Houston-Intercontinental (IAH) and Nashville International Airport (BNA).
“The ties between our region and Puerto Rico have grown substantially in recent years,” San Antonio’s Air Service Administrator Jacob Tyler said of the latter route to the San Antonio Express-Times. “Establishing nonstop service between San Antonio and San Juan has been a priority.”
While Spirit is yet to officially confirm the new flights, online aviation watchdog @IshrionA has spotted the new additions to the network schedule alongside three additional ones that are being brought back from retirement — Louisville to Tampa, Minneapolis to Orlando, and Milwaukee to Fort Myers.
In total, Spirit is either launching or bringing back 24 routes to tropical destinations in the spring of 2025.
Fort Myers is another popular airline destination during sun-seeker season
The latter city in southwestern Florida has recently become a focus for low-cost airlines in particular as it sees high tourist numbers from southern and midwestern states.
At the end of 2023, Spirit competitor Frontier Airlines (FRON) launched new Fort Myers flights from U.S. cities such as Detroit, Minneapolis, Buffalo and Syracuse — all places that have long winters that residents look to break up with short trips to sunny destinations.
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Spirit, meanwhile, has cut some of its Fort Myers frequencies in May 2024 but is bringing them back ahead of the Spring Break 2025 rush. They will once again be retired by the warm-weather months of summer.
“RSW [the Fort Myers’ airport code] is a great, long-time partner of Spirit Airlines, and we’re thankful to the Fort Myers community for their continued support as we add the only nonstop service to SJU on our 30th anniversary,” Spirit’s Vice President of Network Planning John Kirby said in November 2023 when announcing a new flight to the Puerto Rican capital of San Juan.
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