A tale of Spirit

The sincere opinion from a European: Is Spirit Airlines that bad? 🤔✈️

How is ultra-low-cost flying in the United States different from these airlines on the other side of the ocean? 🇪🇺🇺🇸

Our European correspondent tells you his experience on board a 3-hour flight operated by Spirit from San Antonio (SAT) to its main hub, Fort Lauderdale (FLL) 🟡/

N532NK, a 17-year-old Airbus A319, operated this hop, and you can tell its age by the look of its cabin. Spirit Airlines will retire all its Airbus A319s by the end of 2024, so these jets have not received the latest cabin updates 💺

The most shocking details of the seat: the tiniest tray table ever seen on a commercial jet and a ridiculous rubber band that can only hold the safety card and inflight magazine, at best.

The legroom, however, is far from the typical pitches you see on European low-cost carriers. Wide and comfortable, you can easily fully stretch your legs in-flight 👏🏻

The snack & drink menu offers an acceptable variety of products priced high, but in the "aviation standard" prices you can see on any other airline 🍟🥤

On board Spirit, delays or cancellations are frequent, but in our case, even though we took off 45 minutes after schedule, we arrived in Fort Lauderdale on time 🕑✅

The most significant difference, above all, is that Spirit Airlines charges extra fares for all additional amenities, but these limitations are much more apparent to the passengers and professionally handled by the staff than on European low-cost carriers 🧳👍🏻

✍️ Adrian Nowakowski \