Spirit Airways, which at the moment flies nonstop to solely three cities from San Diego Worldwide Airport, is poised to start out flying to 5 extra, simply in time for summer time journey.The extremely low-cost service introduced this week that starting in April, Could and June, it’ll start nonstop service to Baltimore, Houston, Portland, Sacramento, and Salt Lake Metropolis. All shall be each day flights, though for Baltimore, the service will initially be 3 times every week beginning Could 9 and transitioning to each day service Could 21.The Sacramento flight is debuting April 10, adopted by Houston on Could 8, Baltimore a day later, Portland June 5, and at last, Salt Lake Metropolis on June 20. Spirt already flies to Oakland, Las Vegas and San Jose.Given Spirit’s longstanding presence in San Diego, the extra flights made sense, stated John Kirby, vp of community planning at Spirit Airways.“We’re all the time searching for new alternatives to get our visitors to the locations they need to go at an reasonably priced fare, and this growth supplies San Diego vacationers with handy flights to find 5 new locations from coast to coast,” Kirby stated. “Spirit has served the San Diego group for a very long time, and we’re excited to increase this summer time and make it simpler for visitors throughout our community to go to the ‘Birthplace of California’ and join with household and associates.”A lot of the new locations have already got comparatively sturdy service from different airways. Salt Lake Metropolis is served by Southwest, Delta and Alaska airways, and there are a number of flights every day to Sacramento through Southwest and Alaska, in response to San Diego airport spokesperson Nicole Corridor. United Airways is at the moment the one service offering nonstop service to Houston, and Southwest is the only service for nonstop service between San Diego and Baltimore. Each Southwest and Alaska fly nonstop to Portland.For every of the nonstops, apart from Sacramento, present each day passenger counts vary from 300 to 690 passengers every manner, Corridor stated. For Sacramento, the each day variety of passengers every manner averages 1,500.Beginning subsequent month, low-cost service Breeze Airways is making its debut on the San Diego airport with the primary of 5 new nonstop flights to main cities in North Carolina, Florida, Virginia, Ohio and Pennsylvania. And Frontier Airways will launch a seasonal nonstop flight between San Diego and El Paso on Could 16.Spirit’s announcement of expanded service comes lower than a month after Spirit and JetBlue introduced they have been ending their settlement to merge, weeks after a federal choose blocked the deal.