Spirit Airlines landed in Guayaquil

Being a 22 march 2018 at 22:20 pm, the airíultra-low-cost airline Spirit Airlines landedó in Guayaquil with an avión Airbus A319 and becomes the first airlineílow cost airline to operate at Jos International Airporté Joaquín de Olmedo.

A new member joinedó to the Guayaquil Airport family and on this occasion offerá, for the first time, a low cost service, to whom the guayaquileños and users dutyán get used to. charges for bags, seating, food, etc. to beán the main factors with which Spirit mustá work for «educate» to his new pútarget war, accustomed until that dayía, to the traditional airline serviceíyou know what ahí operate.

Guayaquil looks for new airlinesíneas y más aún, lower costs. This wish finally came true, hereí the cróphoto of Spirit Airlines' first flight to Ecuador.

The arrival of Spirit Airlines to Ecuador

The chronologyía of the process that occurred for the arrival to Ecuador of this airlineínea on her first country routeís, it was given as follows:

• The 3 November 2017 published in this space exclusively, before any other traditional or digital media, the to intendón of Spirit Airlines flying to Guayaquil with a weekly flight, at that time the airínever aún he did not have flight permits from the United States, nor from Ecuador.
• The 29 of that same month of November, the airínea 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 afterés, startó ticket sales on the Fort Lauderdale route – Guayaquil – Fort Lauderdale, which have an approximate value from $278 dóround-trip costs including taxes for introductory priceón y graduationón. These tickets were sold with the clarificationón that the route was subject to approvalón governmental.
• With date 31 of January of 2018, the airínea startó your process of obtaining the operating permitón before the aero authorityáEcuadorian utica and this process endedó the 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 aterrizó in Guayaquil

With passages on average up to $200 dóhomes más cheaper than other aerosolídenies, but without luggage or food service among others, Spirit Airlines aterrizó in Guayaquil with núGrouper flight NK1141 on an Airbus A319 matrícula N502NK from Fort Lauderdale Hollywood International Airport at exactly 22 hours of the night ofíto thursday 22 of March, giving theí for starting its operations.

the airícompany is authorized in its operating permitón operate family aircraft 320, tanto A319 (30 planes), A320 (57 planes) and the más big and new addition to its fleet, the A321 (27 planes). For the maiden flight and until demand matures, the airíI don't use itó an Airbus A319 with capacity for 145 passengers in 2 lessons (10 executives and 135 económonkeys).

with núMSN 2433 serial grouper it's avión has only 13 años since its first flight and is powered by 2 engines 2 x IAE V2524-A5 with an autonomousíto flight 3,750 miles náUticas, while the distance from FLL to GYE is 1,941 miles náUticas.

This new route has a durationón of 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 dayía.

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

Given the schedule conditions of these flights, the Ecuadorian market will be ableá connect to más de 60 destinations within the United States from one of the airline's main HUB airportsínea in the United States and feed the tourism sectoríwith visitors to these Spirit destinations.

The first flight had a busyón of 145 passengers on the Fort Lauderdale stretch – Guayaquil counting guests and airline staffínea 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 operará 1 daily flights from Monday to Sunday flying from Fort Lauderdale at the following times:

the airínea has the projectionón to maintain an occupationón average of 90% and increase its offer with m aircraftás large depending on whether demand increases or not. Sayún the need, Spirit Airlinesíto put your m on this routeás new Airbus A321 aircraft, which have a capacity of 228 passengers in 2 lessons, what to beían 73 seats sás per flight compared to the current Airbus A319.

It was learned that within the airline's plansíline and thanks to the growing demand for passengers to and from Ecuador driven by new policiesíethics of Open skies and other benefits, Spirit Airlines analizaríto expand its operations as wellén to Quito, where currently Solo Fort Lauderdale operates úonly JetBlue.

It should be remembered that the Florida market to and from Ecuador, it is the marketás sued between both países and now they add 46 weekly frequencies or what is equivalent to más de 2.500 weekly seats, led by aerolínew Americans (American Airlines, JetBlue y Spirit) and only one Ecuadorian (Tame EP).

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

With a total of 115 planes in your fleet, Spirit Airlines has the oldest máyoung man s airplaneíUnited States lines, with an average age of only 5 años, which guarantees an operationóon time and safely.

¡Welcome to Guayaquil!