I was having a bit of a random Google around, as you do, or as those of us with no lives do!! And up pops ‘Spirit Airline'. Erm, never heard of it, and I thought I knew most of the world’s airlines as I like to continuously fill my brain (limited as it is) with complete junk. I even know most of them in the old Soviet countries, and other out of the way places.

At first I thought I haven’t heard of it as it spends most of the time in the Twilight Zone carrying ghosts around the planet! But due to the lack of evidence of ghosts I was pretty sure that it wasn’t much of a business model, and would probably spook the aircrew anyway! Mind you, in the event of a crash they’d already be dead so one bonus!

Anyway, after a little hunting around I discovered, surprisingly (yer right) it has nothing to do with the spirit world, and is actually an airline that does its business with the Caribbean, S America, and a few US States in the Florida region of the country, and the odd other State, not that I am saying they are odd!! Although you are probably thinking I am by now.

Now having been to Orlando and Miami airports a few I don’t remember seeing them (told you earlier I have limited brain capacity), and no pictures of a single one of their planes. Very strange, maybe they are ‘on the other side’! So wanting to include a picture of one of their planes with this article I asked around the members on my forums who travel a lot, and none of them had heard of them, let alone had a picture of any of Spirit Airlines fleet, so if you want to know what colour scheme they have you can take a peak on Google Images

Now those images have two colour schemes and after a little digging around I believe the correct colours are the bright blue rather than the dull grey. A very good idea to use bright colours, otherwise people (me) fail to notice them.

A little history I found while trolling through Google, it seems the ghostly Spirit Airline appeared from the great beyond around 1980, with one jet in Michigan.

It appears they are on record in the Bureau of Transportation Statistics 2008 for being the airline with the most complaints. I bet the management is proud of being top of the list for something!

Reading on their own web site as with other cheap airlines they now charge per bag, which seat you want, pets, kids on their own and possibly for using the air in the cabin in the future! One UK carrier thought about the idea of charging to use the toilet, so take a bucket just in case.

So if you just want to send your 10 year old kid to Auntie Willy in Bermuda, with his pet guinea pig (PooPoo....Don’t ask!), 3 cases, and he wants a nice window seat, you will probably need to sell off your gold to pay for the ticket.

Right, I’ve finished waffling on about nothing important, but hopefully you’ve learnt a bit more useless information. If you REALLY want more information, take a peak over at Wiki