Why Spirit Airlines is retiring its Airbus A319s

Spirit Airlines has said it will concentrate its efforts on the Airbus A320 and A321 at the expense of the lower-capacity A319. The low-cost carrier’s latest fleet plan, detailed in its fourth-quarter 2022 earnings results released earlier this month, says it will withdraw 29 of its 31 A319ceos by the end of next year. In January 2023, Spirit signed an agreement to sell these aircraft to Gryphon, an aviation leasing and trading company. The budget operator says it will phase