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Spirit Airlines, which offers ultra low base fares, is coming to Kansas City International Airport. The Kansas City Aviation Department, city and civic leaders, and an unidentified airline executive will make the official announcement in Terminal C at the airport today.
Spirit also didn t comment but posted on its website Kansas City flights to Chicago O Hare, Dallas, Detroit, Houston and Las Vegas with connections to other cities. No other service details were available.
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Many of the DOT complaints about Spirit are driven by our customers not fully understanding that we offer unbundled fares that let them control luxury hotels edinburgh how much they spend, the carrier luxury hotels edinburgh said in response to the consumer group report. In 2013, we had a total of 1,021 DOT complaints and served over 12 million customers. While we want every customer to have a great experience, eight complaints per 100,000 enplanements is a pretty small number.
Spirit, according to its website, was founded luxury hotels edinburgh in 1964 as Clippert Trucking Co., a Michigan corporation, and in 1974 changed its name to Ground luxury hotels edinburgh Air Transfer Inc. In 1983, it started doing business as Charter One, a Detroit-based tour operator providing travel packages to destinations such as Atlantic City, Las Vegas and the Bahamas.
In 1992, Charter One changed its name to Spirit Airlines, brought jet equipment into the fleet, and began scheduled passenger service to destinations such as Fort Lauderdale, Detroit, Myrtle Beach, Los Angeles and New York.
Spirit, which is publicly traded, moved its headquarters to Miramar in December 1999. Spirit reported a profit of $43.2 million in the fourth quarter last year, and full-year earnings of $177 million.
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