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Broward State Attorney Mike Satz, who has held the office for 837 years and counting, has rarely faced a serious challenger in his reelection bids. This November, he'll be running against Republican Jim Lewis, a Fort Lauderdale lawyer who most recently ran (unsuccessfully) for attorney general.The m ... More >>

Crazed, Blind, French-Speaking Octogenarian Forces Spirit Air Emergency Landing

All they wanted to do was fly from L.A. to Fort Lauderdale.About 100 passengers were stuck in Houston on Sunday after an unruly 81-year-old man forced a Spirit Air red-eye flight to make an emergency landing in Texas, according to ABC News. The man was "like, touching everybody," according to one pa ... More >>

Brandon Johnson Arrested at Fort Lauderdale Airport Cursing About Flight to Jamaica

Brandon Johnson wanted to fly to Jamaica, and he didn't much care about little things like "passports" and "not cursing out police officers."The 30-year-old was berating a Spirit Airlines ticket agent about getting a flight out of Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport when a Broward deputy ... More >>

One of Two Airlines Flying to Niagara Falls Ditches Fort Lauderdale International

Niagara Falls is one of the most recognizable natural wonders in North America, 165 feet tall in places and as majestic as a bald eagle flying in slow motion with a golden scepter in its talons.So it was good news when Allegiant Air announced last month that it would be flying routes from Fort Laude ... More >>

Spirit Airlines to Charge $100 For Carry-On Bag, Here's How to Pack

The penny pinchers at Spirit Airlines have come up with a new way to ruin your flying experience. Starting in early November, the Miramar-based discount carrier will charge up to $100 for a carry-on bag. The fee only applies if, like us, you procrastinate packing, sprint through the airport, and end ... More >>

Bride Says Spirit Airlines Ruined Her Wedding

Rachael Barach and her fiancé spent months planning their dream wedding: a small ceremony on the remote Caribbean Island of Jost Van Dyke. Pulling it off would require some effort: flying from Fort Lauderdale to St. Thomas, then taking a ferry over to Jost Van Dyke; hiring a wedding photographer, a ... More >>

Negotiations Are Under Way for Expansion of Fort Lauderdale Airport's Terminal 4

We told you last week that Broward County has broken ground on a $791 million runway expansion at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International that will send planes up a six-story ramp over Federal Highway and the FEC tracks.Broward County Aviation Department​In tandem with that project, Terminal 4 (ho ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Airport Has the Third-Cheapest Average Airfare in the Country

airplanepicture.org​Hey, Spirit Airlines is good for something (probably) -- making the average airfare from the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport the third-lowest in the country, at $266.The ranking was done by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics, which found that only the a ... More >>

Direct Flights Between Fort Lauderdale and Roatan, Honduras Coming Soon -- Via New Honduran Airline, Easy Sky

A new budget airline called EasySky is poised to do battle with Spirit Airlines, the Miramar-based ultra-low-cost carrier -- at least on one of its routes.Spirit currently operates a red-eye flight between Fort Lauderdale and San Pedro Sula, Honduras' bustling industrial center, often with advertis ... More >>

Spirit Airlines, Apparently Out of Ideas, Now Using Rod Blagojevich's "F-ing Golden" Line

spirit.com​Miramar-based Spirit Airlines -- probably most-famously known for nickel-and-diming their customers to death -- has apparently run a little short on ideas in their marketing department, as they've decided recently-convicted Illinois politician Rod Blagojevich is their key to selling tic ... More >>

Spirit Airlines to Charge Fee for Boarding Pass; We Hope Bathrooms Are Still Free

Give us your cash, we'll let you board the plane.​Spirit Airlines, the Miramar-based discount carrier that makes your miserly 83-year-old grandpa look generous, has announced its latest fee: It will now cost five bucks to have a ticket agent print a boarding pass at the airport. And starting next ... More >>

TONIGHT! Luggage-Throwing Competition Could Earn You a Free Flight, or Even 200 Free Flights

This is what you'll look like at the luggage toss.​You can snag 5,000 miles (about one flight) from Spirit Airlines today at 5 p.m. at Round Up Country Western Club in Davie simply for participating in its luggage-throwing competition, and if you have exceptionally good aim, you can win the grand ... More >>

Ritter Campaign: Receipts Tell More Of Story

​​Digging into the Florida Elections Commission reports on Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter's campaign case and a few things quite literally don't add up. Then again, nothing about Ritter's campaign makes sense. It appears to have been a big-spending free-for-all.   ... More >>

Discount Airline Selling Standing Room Only Tickets -- and It's Not Spirit?

Flickr: TGKWThe view from the cabin of a Ryanair flight.​Someone in the Miramar headquarters of Spirit has probably been told to pack their things and get the hell out, because he or she did not think of what Ryanair has thunk: We can sell tickets to people willing to stand through a flight -- and ... More >>

Morning Juice: Probation for Stacy Ritter's Pop; Prosecutors Wary of Traveling Salesman

​The local news for Friday morning:Five years of probation is the sentence for Ed Portner, former Tamarac commissioner, for pulling a gun on his daughter, Broward County Commissioner Stacy Ritter, at her Parkland home last October. That whole episode seems to me like it was some bizarre dream that ... More >>

Morning Juice: Spirit Pilots Have a Deal; Final Arrest in Shootout With Boca Police

​Here's what's happening in South Florida this Thursday morning:On the jailhouse phone, 15-year-old Wayne Treacy talks to his parents about living in Key West after serving time for nearly beating to death Josie Lou Ratley at a Deerfield Beach school bus stop in March. [Sun-Sentinel]Hollywood eye ... More >>

If You're Flying Spirit Air Next Month, Better Get to Flight School

Flickr​Spirit Air pilots are threatening to strike, and so far, Spirit Air executives haven't blinked. The South Florida Business Journal is reporting that the airline gave notice that it's ready to lay off nearly 1,600 employees if the pilots head to the picket line June 12.Those workers would co ... More >>

Pilots Threatening Strike Against Stingy Spirit

Flickr: taddzillaThey're gettin' grumpy in Spirit Air cockpit.​Spirit pilots' union is claiming that the Miramar-based airline is run by no-good cheapskates, meaning that now everybody aboard a Spirit Air plane can agree on that sentiment. The passengers complain about getting gouged for their lug ... More >>

Five More Demoralizing, Humiliating Ways for Spirit Airlines to Save Money

Flickr: FabricadeMagie​Alleged "low-cost" carrier Spirit Air will charge you 45 bucks if you want your luggage to make the round trip, and it's phasing out its recliner seats for newer, allegedly "pre-reclined" seats, which are 30 percent lighter, meaning Spirit can save some pennies on fuel.Here ... More >>

Nickel and Dimed by Spirit Airlines

Flickr user: Shirley Two FeathersWith all the hidden fees, maybe it's better to fly nude.​I'm new to South Florida, so I've never had the pleasure of flying on Miramar-based Spirit Airlines before. But as a die-hard bargain shopper, I was thrilled to discover last night that Spirit was offering a ... More >>

Spirit Airlines Baggage Fee Provides Excuse for Nude Air Travel

Flickr: Shirley Two FeathersIs this a glimpse into the future of Spirit Airlines?​We already know that Miramar-based Spirit Airlines caters to cheapskates. And we also know that its advertisements and promotions cater to customers who enjoy sexual innuendo. So maybe it's inevitable that the compan ... More >>

That's the Spirit: Miramar Airline Launches Another Sex-Rated Ad Campaign

​Spirit Air wants you to use your internet connection to check out some MUFF -- that is, its "Many Unbelievably Fantastic Fares." What other muffs are there?In fact, judging by the advertisement above, the Miramar-based airline encourages you to physically lunge for its low fares. To be a MUFF div ... More >>

Can You Guess What National Airline Is Exploiting the Tiger Woods Crash for Advertising?

Really, there's only one airline that would stoop this hilariously low: Miramar-based Spirit Airlines. The airline that has previously boasted of being a skank compared to Virgin Air, that giggles about "tree-way" sex in another ad. Spirit had to work fast to get this ad out while it was still a hot ... More >>

Fort Lauderdale Flight Did NOT Crash in Puerto Rico... Or Anywhere for That Matter

BNONews.orgThe explosion in question.​This article on a breaking news website claimed that Spirit Airlines Flight 837 originating in Fort Lauderdale crashed near San Juan, Puerto Rico, and that it was the source of an explosion that firefighters are still putting out.I just got off the phone with ... More >>

Lauderdale Airport's Newest Carrier Announces Special Service to Customers Who've Never Had Sex

Screen grab: PCMag.com​ Can't get laid? Well, maybe some free WiFi will cheer you up. Google is teaming up with the newest airline to serve Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International Airport so that virgin travelers can have free internet.Oh wait, maybe that's Virgin travelers? Haha. This is just a ... More >>

Spirit Airlines: Your Skank in the Sky

​That's an actual advertisement from Spirit Airlines, the pride of Miramar. Clearly a shot across the bow at Virgin America, which is coming soon to the FLL.

Search for Airline More Spartan Than Spirit Ends in Ireland

Quick, someone block the New York Times website on the computer of Spirit Airlines CEO Ben Baldanza. The head of the Miramar-based discount carrier will be devastated if he learns that there's another airline that is more ruthless about achieving low fares (a Baldanza obsession) and more willing to ... More >>

On Fox Business Network, Miramar-Based Airline Gets Free Advertising

 It looks like journalism. But if Spirit Airlines didn't pay for this segment on Fox Business Network, it should have. CEO Ben Baldanza gets five minutes of cable time to field questions that all have the same answer: because we have low fares.They ran out of time before the anchor could ask ab ... More >>

Spirit Airlines: Run by Red Sox Fans?

Flickr user: maestraThe Miramar-based airline notorious for an ad that shows a post-coital cuddling session between a young man and a cougarish lady that advertises an innuendo-thick "three way" deal to its customers and treats its flight attendants as billboard space has -- if you can believe this ... More >>

Hurry to Get in on Tobacco Suit, Flight Attendant Aprons Ruin Beer Surprise, James Taylor to Dress Up

A civil suit that goes to trial in Fort Lauderdale today is expected to be the first of a wave of lawsuits against Big Tobacco in Florida courts. The widow of Stuart Hess, a locksmith from Cooper City, sued Phillip Morris after his death in 1997, claiming the cigarettes he bought were defec ... More >>

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