Spirit Airlines (NK, Fort Lauderdale International) has retired its A319-100 fleet, with the final scheduled flight taking place on January 6, 2025.
N535NK (msn 4403) operated the last commercial flight of the type for Spirit Airlines flying between Fort Lauderdale International and San Juan Luis Muñoz Marin, ADS-B data shows. Then, on January 7, it was ferried to Houston Intercontinental and subsequently to Coolidge Municipal Airport in Arizona on January 10.
The airline, which is currently under a Chapter 11 reorganisation process, opted to accelerate the retirement of the type, originally scheduled to take place in the second quarter of 2025. Last year it retired seventeen A319s, the ch-aviation fleets module shows. Two remained in operation into 2025, with N536NK (msn 4422) ferried to Coolidge on 8 January.
The company’s fleet now comprises 213 aircraft, all of them narrowbodies - sixty-four A320-200s, ninety-one A320-200Ns, thirty A321-200s, and twenty-eight A321-200NX.
Spirit Airlines was not immediately available for comment.
