Spirit Airlines making note improvements..

I was on the phone with our friend Travel Ape this past weekend. For those of you who may not have noticed our blogs and our official posts haven't happened in a few weeks, so I hope you sadly missed us and are happy to have us back. Well regardless, Travel Ape happened to be sitting in the Fort Myers Airport in Florida on his way to Atlantic City NJ via a Spirit Airlines flight. The topic of discussion was started, "Hey how bad was your flight?". Which Travel Ape responded "You know what I was startled by how fast and courteous the service was"...I was startled by the response.

Well sure enough I looked into the observation a little further and Spirit has made a concerted effort in both speeding up flights and improving service. The product of which is a combination of two. For example, a flight from or to Atlantic City - Fort Myers Florida had been tracked on average somewhere near 2 hours and 45 minutes. At last tracking, Travel Ape's same flight was in the range of 2 hours to 2 hours and 15 minutes. What's the difference? First off, there has been an initiative to get the time between flights sped up. If you take a flight on Spirit you'll notice the team and militant effort of the flight crew moving people out, personally helping out with loading and unloading luggage and cleaning up waste left from last flights. Second, again peeping into the background a little, Spirit has made some significant changes in their flight plans. That translates into flight paths that basically take a lot less. Not really sure the semantics that go into flight plans but why this took so long to address or adjust doesn't make sense. The only thing I'm happy about is that Spirit Airlines is just better to fly on considering flight times are considerably less. 

Well kudos to Spirit Airlines. No doubt shorter flights equate into less fuel used and of course this tracks back up to the consumer with cheaper fairs. In a time where less has to mean so much more, it's nice to see that capitalism still means striving for adjustments that meet market demand. Check back often for many of the deals that Spirit Air has to offer.