COLUMBIA, SC (WOLO) — Spirit Airlines will now offer nonstop flights from Columbia Metropolitan Airport to Newark, New Jersey, as well as Orlando and Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

Kim Crafton, CAE’s Vice President of Air Service Development and Marketing says the community has eagerly awaited this moment.

“For years at every event I attended on behalf of the airport, I was asked ‘When will we get another airline? When are we gonna get more routes? Do you think we’ll have Spirit one day?’ I know I speak for the entire team when I say I can put a big exclamation point on the answer to that last question with yes! And that day is today that we have Spirit,” says Crafton at a press conference on Thursday morning.

Columbia resident Denise Oliver visits family in Newark, and says the convenience

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