Spirit Airlines to Buy 100 Airbus 320 NEO’s
 

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-spirit-airlines-orders/spirit-airlines-to-buy-100-airbus-a320neo-family-aircraft-idUSKBN1YR22H

Oh my GOD!!!! really?!? Applied!

The company has converted the MOU to an actual purchase agreement. While not unexpected, it is significant.

I stand corrected. My apologies. Great news that makes me even more thankful to be on the line already.

is this not "old news" announced a few weeks ago ?

sorry if I have been asleep. lots of news in the airline sector lately...

Previously it was an MOU. Now the deal is finalized.

Sorry it’s a little off topic, but speaking about plane orders, looks like the 737 Max has been pushed back yet again till at least June (which I’m sure is just a wild guess).

It would seem like Spirit and other non-MAX operators are capitalizing on this and growing good market share. For example Southwest dropped some service out of EWR and Spirit picked up on it. Seems like stuff like this will really help Spirit grow. What are yalls thoughts?

https://www.yahoo.com/news/boeings-c...144100250.html

Southwest’s fleet size is 5 times NK currently, I think we have a very long way to go before we eat significantly more into their market share (than we already have).

If SW wanted to be in EWR, they would have adjusted their route structure to be there. They have dozen of routes with 5-6-7 frequencies a day, we have a handful, which is why our aim for the coming year is to reinforce our route structure rather than extending too far into new markets.

This could be what our planes look like in the future.

https://ibb.co/hKHNKdh

Will they at least still say "HOWDY" on the inside of the winglet..er...sharklet?

Just flew 919... been online for about 1 month... it still says howdy

New interior yes??

Only has the new big front seats. Rest of them are old style

Just rode on 920. New interior. Looks sharp 👍🏻

Sorry probably old news

breakdown of the 100 plane order

47 319s
33 320s
20 321s
all NEOs

Just curious where are you getting this info. I didn’t see the break down on the investor’s site.

That’s a lot of 319’s.

I saw the same thing in an article from the law firm that facilitated the deal. I googled it and it’s one of the first articles within the past 24 hours.

https://www.airbus.com/aircraft/mark...eliveries.html

second paragraph on the page

you can download the orders and delivery xls file from the site.

The xls spreadsheet will say 66 320 NEOs but that includes the currently 33 undelivered NEOs from 2020 to 2021

I wonder what the 319 retirement schedule looks like from 2022 on

Regarding the 321 NEOs, is there a way to tell if they’ll be XLRs?

https://www.airbus.com/newsroom/pres...-aircraft.html

"U.S.-based Spirit Airlines has finalized a purchase agreement with Airbus for 100 A320neo Family aircraft. In October, the two parties had signed and announced a memorandum of understanding (MoU) for the purchase of up to 100 of the aircraft – a mix of A319neo, A320neo, and A321neo – to meet the airline’s future fleet requirements."

On the 2019 Q3 investor call it was stated that they reserve the right to option up to XLRs or option down to A220s if they feel the need but said that it would be unlikely... so no XLRs as of now unless something changes

That’s a lot of 319 NEO’s a plane nobody else wants....

I guess I missed that part. Thanks!

No prob. This is a quote from the investor call:

Mike, this is Scott Haralson. Yes, quick comment on the conversion component. We did in this order 319s, 320s and 321s, so the 320 family. However, we do have conversion rates up and down the spectrum of what Airbus offers through the 19, 20, and 21 as well into the 220 if we would like to do that. That's just a mechanism, and the contract -- not a hint to our desire to do that at all. Our plan is to operate the 320 family of aircraft.

I couldn't find any reference to XLR in the investor call now that I looked for it but I did read it somewhere (sorry can't find it rn) that they can flex up to XLRs too but, again, as of now that's not the plan.

Wouldn’t the XLR be useless in high density seating. Not sure it would have the payload available with bags to fill up all the tanks

To me it makes sense. Spirit is very opportunistic with new routes. The 319 neo will have the best range in the fleet and allow for the most expansion into underserved route markets, even if they are transcon

I bet it was a smoking deal on those. I also wonder if that’s in response to Breeze’s looming entrance to the market.

I very rarely have many bags on domestic routes, so filling up tanks shouldn’t be a problem. Going south, different question. A couple of trips ago I did a IAH-SAP turn and we had nearly 200 bags each way, in a 320! 😮
If we got the XLR, it’d be interesting to see how Spirit deploys it.

Were the engines also described?
P&W?

apparently Frontier (indigo) thinks it can be used.

yeah it’s not really a domestic plane though unless we are talking Hawaii or alaska into a flyover state

Contract still being finalized last theyve said publicly.

Almost assuredly.

Wonder if any will have the new “airspace” cabin, much more space in overheads and nicer PSU’s

Old news man

that’s the first time I have seen the breakdown of the new order! 47 319 NEOS wow

was discussed a couple pages back. Yeah that’s a ton of 319’s. Very surprising in my book.