Spirit Airlines seeks A321 order conversion

Spirit Airlines (NK, Fort Lauderdale Int'l) has opened negotiations with Airbus Industrie (AIB, Toulouse Blagnac) about the possible conversion of an undisclosed number of later delivery A321-200 (sl)s to A320-200 (sl)s airline CFO Ted Christie has told CAPA.

The US ULCC currently has twelve A320ceo and twenty-two A321ceo due for delivery from the Europeans. The stage of the discussions was not revealed.
Spirit currently operates twenty-nine A319-100s, forty-three A320-200s, and nine A321-200s on flights throughout the United States as well as to the Caribbean, and Central and South America.

Duncan Stewart - LAX