Spirit Airlines launches new route from Las Vegas to Oakland
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Spirit Airlines’ Las Vegas to Oakland

Spirit Airlines’ first of the new flights at Chicago O’Hare was welcomed upon arrival from Boston.
- Spirit Airlines, the US ultra low cost carrier, launched five new routes on 18 August. Four of the routes are from the airline’s Chicago O’Hare (ORD) base, as detailed in this week’s airline analysis. Furthermore, Spirit Airlines began flying from Las Vegas, NV (LAS) to Oakland, CA (OAK) in the San Francisco Bay Area; a new destination in the Spirit Airlines network. Flights initially operate twice-daily, but frequencies increase to three times daily from 7 September. Similarly, all routes out of Chicago but the Detroit service increase by one daily frequency on the same date.
Origin | Destination | WF* | A/c | Competition (WF*) |
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Chicago O’Hare, IL (ORD) | Boston, MA (BOS) | 7 | A319 | United (71), American Airlines (62), jetBlue (21) |
Chicago O’Hare, IL (ORD) | Dallas/Ft Worth, TX (DFW) | 14 | A319 | American Airlines (118), United (36) |
Chicago O’Hare, IL (ORD) | Detroit, MI (DTW) | 14 | A319 | Delta (51), American Airlines (48), United (47) |
Chicago O’Hare, IL (ORD) | New York LaGuardia, NY (LGA) | 7 | A319 | American Airlines (107), United (95), Delta (76) |
Las Vegas, NV (LAS) | Oakland, CA (OAK) | 14 | A319 | Southwest (55) |
*WF: Weekly Frequency (at the time of launch for the Spirit services) |
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