The bright yellow planes are impossible to miss at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport. For more than two decades they have been a fixture of South Florida’s sky — cheap, loud, polarizing, and deeply woven into the story of how Broward County became one of the busiest air travel hubs in the United States.
Now Spirit Airlines is fighting for its life. And whether it lives or dies may be decided in a Washington courtroom by Monday.
How Spirit ended up in Florida
Spirit Airlines started life as Charter One — a Michigan-based charter tour operator founded in Macomb County in 1983, ferrying passengers from Detroit to Atlantic City and
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