Spirit Airlines A321neo
NKNarrow-body jet
Fleet as reported in the 2025 annual filing · Registry & ages refreshed Sep 1, 2026
Spirit Airlines ceased operations May 2, 2026. The figures below are the fleet as last reported, not aircraft in service today. The filing is annual, and continues to report a carrier's fleet after it stops flying.
A further 11 airframes were last reported in an earlier filing and are excluded from the counts below.
- Passengers flown a year
- 5M
- 3rd-largest Spirit Airlines sub-fleet
- Airframes in the filing
- 21
- Airports served
- 40
- Countries
- 9
- Departures a day
- 78
- Average age
- 2.0 yr
How Spirit Airlines flies its A321neo
Filed traffic dataThe count above is the A321neo airframes Spirit Airlines owns (US DOT Form 41). This is how it actually flew them to 40 airports across 9 countries — the capacity and busiest routes filed with US DOT T-100 over the trailing 12 months.
Departures flown
28,646
June 2026
Seats flown
6,560,477
Passengers
5M
Load factor
77.3%
RPM ÷ ASM
Block hours
79,762
Spirit Airlines's busiest A321neo routes
Its busiest A321neo routes over the trailing 12 months, by departures.
Atlanta – Fort Lauderdale (ATL–FLL)
1,021 departures · 188,104 passengers · 581 mi
80.5%
Load
Fort Lauderdale – New York (FLL–LGA)
902 departures · 177,628 passengers · 1,076 mi
86.0%
Load
Fort Lauderdale – Chicago (FLL–ORD)
784 departures · 141,228 passengers · 1,182 mi
78.7%
Load
Newark – Fort Lauderdale (EWR–FLL)
744 departures · 143,879 passengers · 1,065 mi
84.4%
Load
597 departures · 114,409 passengers · 950 mi
83.7%
Load
583 departures · 107,795 passengers · 854 mi
80.7%
Load
Detroit – Fort Lauderdale (DTW–FLL)
554 departures · 96,818 passengers · 1,127 mi
76.3%
Load
Fort Lauderdale – Houston (FLL–IAH)
474 departures · 85,088 passengers · 966 mi
78.4%
Load
470 departures · 69,075 passengers · 502 mi
64.2%
Load
Dallas-Fort Worth – Fort Lauderdale (DFW–FLL)
387 departures · 70,264 passengers · 1,119 mi
79.3%
Load
380 departures · 78,041 passengers · 1,416 mi
89.7%
Load
Dallas-Fort Worth – Los Angeles (DFW–LAX)
368 departures · 73,243 passengers · 1,235 mi
86.9%
Load
362 departures · 71,524 passengers · 746 mi
86.3%
Load
Las Vegas – Los Angeles (LAS–LAX)
358 departures · 67,212 passengers · 236 mi
82.0%
Load
Columbus – Fort Lauderdale (CMH–FLL)
342 departures · 55,343 passengers · 973 mi
70.7%
Load
The longest and shortest Spirit Airlines A321neo flights
The two ends of the type's working envelope, from the routes it actually flew — not what the airframe is certified to do.
Longest route flown
2,454 mi
Newark – Los Angeles (EWR–LAX)
5h 39m block · 283 departures · 89% load
Flown by Spirit Airlines. A long leg for a narrow-body twin — far enough from a diversion airport that the type carries an ETOPS rating.
Shortest route flown
197 mi
Fort Lauderdale – Tampa (FLL–TPA)
1h 1m block · 315 departures · 64% load
Flown by Spirit Airlines.
Source: US DOT Bureau of Transportation Statistics, T-100 Segment. Data through June 2026.
Where Spirit Airlines flies the A321neo from
Spirit Airlines flies its A321neo from 40 US airports in 9 countries. The busiest, by departures:
- FLL
5,255 departures · 30 routes
24.8%
Share
- MCO
1,691 departures · 14 routes
8.0%
Share
- LGA
1,383 departures · 6 routes
6.5%
Share
- IAH
1,344 departures · 10 routes
6.4%
Share
- EWR
1,145 departures · 8 routes
5.4%
Share
- LAX
1,056 departures · 9 routes
5.0%
Share
- LAS
1,020 departures · 11 routes
4.8%
Share
- ATL
937 departures · 5 routes
4.4%
Share
- ORD
921 departures · 6 routes
4.4%
Share
- DTW
903 departures · 6 routes
4.3%
Share
Where the A321neo sits in Spirit Airlines's fleet
The A321neo is 14.7% of Spirit Airlines's 217 tracked mainline aircraft.
Share of Spirit Airlines's mainline fleet · each type a slice
Other Spirit Airlines types
How old is the Spirit Airlines A321neo fleet?
Age is measured from each airframe's delivery date — the FAA airworthiness date where available, otherwise the manufacturer's. Bars share a fixed scale across every fleet page, so two carriers can be compared directly.
See all 21 A321neo tail numbers in Spirit Airlines's fleet →
Monthly Spirit Airlines A321neo capacity
Frequently asked
How many A321neo does Spirit Airlines have?
Spirit Airlines operates about 21 A321neo aircraft — 21 in service and 0 stored in its latest US DOT fleet filing.
Where does Spirit Airlines fly the A321neo?
Spirit Airlines flies its A321neo to about 40 US airports across 9 countries, its busiest route being ATL–FLL.
How old are Spirit Airlines's A321neo?
Spirit Airlines's A321neo fleet averages about 2.0 yr, ranging from 1.3 yr to 2.6 yr.
What is the longest A321neo route Spirit Airlines flies?
The longest A321neo route Spirit Airlines flew over the trailing 12 months is EWR–LAX, about 2,454 miles.