Puerto Rico’s post-Hurricane Maria airlift expansion continued this week as Spirit Airlines announced new flights to San Juan’s Luis Muñoz Marin International Airport from Baltimore-Washington International Airport and Tampa International Airport beginning February 14.
The new daily flights between San Juan and Baltimore and San Juan and Tampa will supplement the carrier’s existing daily flights between Fort Lauderdale, Fla. and San Juan and its daily departures between Orlando, Fla. and San Juan. In October, Spirit launched nonstop service between Orlando and Aguadilla, Puerto Rico. Spirit operates more than 500 daily flights to 69 destinations in the U.S., Latin America, and the Caribbean.
The additional Spirit routes are expected to bring Puerto Rico’s monthly airline seat capacity back to 2017 pre-hurricane levels. In September, tourism officials reported the destination was averaging 110 daily flights via 28 different airlines, signaling passenger demand has responded to added capacity…
