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Spirit Airlines’ Wifi Fast, Cheap, Available

Kyle Stewart Posted onMarch 20, 2022March 20, 2022 6 Comments
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Spirit Airlines has spent the last three years equipping its fleet with wi-fi and now that I’ve had a chance to try it I can report it’s cheap, fast, and widely available. 


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Spirit Airlines wifi

Spirit Installs WiFi Connectivity

In the summer of 2019, an announcement that Spirit Airlines plans to install wifi across the Ultra Low-Cost Carrier (ULCC) broke ranks with other discount carriers. Installing inflight wifi services aboard its “fit fleet” of all relatively new Airbus A320 family aircraft has taken the better part of the last three years but is nearly complete at this point. The “Ka” band receivers offer the promise of high-speed internet inflight.

Neither Frontier nor Allegiant (America’s other ULCCs) has installed wifi aboard their aircraft. Southwest, one of the nation’s leading low-cost carriers installed its internet capability as it began to compete for business traffic. Adding wifi is among other business-friendly changes Spirit has made in the last couple of years.

Fast, and Cheap

I sampled the service on a trip from Pittsburgh to Fort Myers and was shocked by both the affordability and the speed offered.

Connecting to the service on my laptop I navigated to spiritwifi.com and found a standard inflight wifi connection screen and the following two pricing levels. Initial speculation was that internet access would be offered at a price of $6.50 but on my Spirit Airlines flight, I was able to connect at two different speed levels for either $3 or $5 for a higher rate of speed.

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Spirit airlines wifi connection page

Spirit airlines wifi pricing

Compared to other prices for US carriers, Spirit wifi was surprisingly inexpensive. For comparison, short flights run between $8-15 domestically on other carriers like United Airlines, around $25 for transcontinental flights. Light internet usage for a phone was just $3 for this flight with about two hours of usable internet based on our flight time.

Unlike most carriers, Spirit advertises that guests can stream from their services (Netflix, Hulu, HBOMax, etc.) whereas others prohibit such. However, that would take a reasonable amount of download speed to achieve. Only JetBlue advertises a competing level of services.

In my experience, download speeds consistently hovered just shy of 10mbps, which was a welcome surprise from GoGo service offered elsewhere.

Spirit airlines wifi speed

I was busy with work so I didn’t have a chance to try streaming though I regret not at least firing up a streaming app for long enough to see if it would work. That said, standard definition typically requires 3-10 mbps, 1080p HD needs 10-18 mbps so that would be a greater challenge based on my speed test results.

Our trip was domestic, but as the Spirit network extends extensively throughout the Caribbean and Latin America. I couldn’t speak to coverage en route or within foreign markets.

Conclusion

Spirit Airlines customers should welcome this ancillary fee with open arms. It’s less expensive than wifi on other carriers, faster than most (uploads would be a struggle for large attachments but emails are a breeze), and a very customer-friendly approach. To truly remove all barriers for business travelers, some power ports need to be installed, but with the ability to connect during flights is key and a welcome addition.

What do you think? Have you tried Spirit’s wifi? If you don’t fly Spirit, how has your onboard wifi experience been? Would you pay more for faster internet availability?

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6 Comments

  1. Jim Reply
    March 20, 2022 at 12:20 pm

    Somehow missed entirely that they were even rolling out WiFi – great to hear it’s fast and the pricing looks very compelling. Spirit and Frontier remind me a lot of EasyJet and Ryanair, two very different approaches to ULCCs. Hopefully the merger retains the Spirit/EasyJet ethos instead of the Frontier/Ryanair one.

  2. derek Reply
    March 20, 2022 at 4:59 pm

    $3, I would buy it, no question. An arm and a leg like other airlines, I have other work that I could do.

  3. Fred Reply
    March 21, 2022 at 10:37 am

    OMG Love it..that price for 3 dollars..work for me..Great job Spirit…

  4. P.Simonson Reply
    March 21, 2022 at 7:37 pm

    Unfortunately as of 1 March, the prices are no longer $3 and $5. Those were the testing phase prices. They now range from $1 up to $15.99 depending on the length of the flight. But we love having wi-fi now!

  5. james kelley Reply
    March 21, 2022 at 11:06 pm

    i fly from boston to ft myers 2-3 times a month last 4 times r/t internet was a waste of money either no one one board new how to reset last month i paid $3 and $5 it’s now $7 and $10 for none or poor reception they just say call spirit in miriar good luck with that so sad to raise fee for non working internet i suggest download a movie before u go!

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