Spirit Airlines, which considers itself “Florida’s airline” is beefing up its Orlando base with eleven new routes to the Caribbean and three to the Carolinas.
The new routes, listed below, will make Orlando a competitor with Las Vegas as Spirit’s #2 base; its main base and busiest site is Fort Lauderdale.
Spirit says it expects most of the business on the new routes will be from people traveling between the city pairs, but also can obviously provide connections for travelers to and from other points on its route map.
- Guatemala City:Begins Oct. 4; two weekly flights
- Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic: Begins Oct. 4; four flights a week through Nov. 7, then daily service
- Aguadilla, Puerto Rico: Begins Oct. 4; daily service
- Panama City, Panama: Begins Oct. 4; four weekly flights
- San Pedro Sula, Honduras: Begins Oct. 5; two flights a week
- San Jose, Costa Rica: Begins Oct. 5; four flights a week through Nov. 7, then daily service
- San Salvador, El Salvador: Begins Oct. 6; two flights a week
- Bogota, Colombia: Begins Nov. 8; daily service
- St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands: Begins Nov. 8; three weekly flights
- Medellin, Colombia: Begins Nov. 9; one flight a week
- Cartagena, Colombia: Begins Nov. 10; two weekly flights
- Asheville, North Carolina: Begins Sept. 7; three weekly flights through Nov. 7, then four
- Greensboro, North Carolina: Begins Sept. 7; three weekly flights through Nov. 7, then four
- Myrtle Beach, South Carolina: Begins Nov. 10; two weekly flights