Facts about the Spirit Airlines

Facts about the Spirit Airlines

Spirit Airlines, Inc. is an American ultra-low-cost carrier, headquartered in Miramar, Florida. Spirit operate and renders private jet services in scheduled flights throughout the United States and the Caribbean, Mexico, Latin America, and South America. Spirit’s two major hubs are in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, and Detroit, Michigan. Major focus cities include Dallas-Forth Worth, Las Vegas, Chicago, Houston, Atlantic City, and Myrtle Beach.As of June 2016, Spirit remains the only U.S. carrier with a 2-star rating from Skytrax.

The company initially started as Clipper Trucking Company in 1964. The airline service was founded in 1980 in Macomb County, Michigan, as Charter One, a Detroit-based charter tour operator providing travel packages to entertainment destinations such as Atlantic City, Las Vegas, and the Bahamas. In 1990, Charter One began scheduled service from Boston and Providence, R.I., to Atlantic City. On May 29, 1992, Charter One bought jet equipment into the fleet, changed its name to Spirit Airlines and inaugurated service from Detroit to Atlantic City.

Spirit team members are key catalysts in the success of the company. They commend their by culture by:

1. Saving their customers money by offering ultra-low base fares with a range of optional service, allowing them the freedom to choose the extras they value.

2. Enabling travel for millions of customers who would not be able to fly if not of their low fares.

3. Caring about their customers, getting them where they need to be safe and reliable, and doing it the right way every time in a relaxed, friendly and fun environment

Their talented and diversified workforce is located in over 50 destinations in eighteen countries with their team members representing a variety of nations around the world.

Success breeds admirers. In December, Delta announced that it was introducing five categories of service, including its answer to Spirit’s bare fare: Basic Economy. In addition to its precarious grammar, Basic Economy does not allow passengers to pick their seats, change their itineraries, or fly standby. The move is merely the most recent evidence that Spirit has become a trendsetter in the American airline’s industry. But what trend is it exactly? Baldanza has repeatedly affirmed that Spirit is refining the art of offering affordable airfare, as efforts which he qualifies as nothing less than an essentially democratic endeavour. He has a point, insofar that we live in a world where social mobility and simple mobility increasingly go hand- in- hand. Yet other low-cost carriers have long provided a model of budget air travel without engendering nearly the anguish of Spirit. Two of them, Jet Blue and Southwest, were even ranked number one and two, respectively that rendered private jet services in the 2014 American Customer Satisfaction Index survey U.S. Airlines.

Rather than being a trailblazer in economy pricing, Spirit’s real significance is that it has come to embody one of the two guiding principles of customer service that, in capitalism, have always been contending centres of moral gravity. The first principle, embodied by Braniff, is: The Customer is Always Right. This approach assumes that commercial success depends on building strong bonds of customer loyalty. The second principle is: Buyer Beware. It assumes that when it comes to turning a profit, preying on the ignorance and necessity of customers is not simply acceptable for private enterprise, its standard operating procedure.