On April 18, Spirit Airlines has marked the grand opening of Spirit Central, its new corporate campus at Dania Pointe in Dania Beach, Florida. The expansive campus, sprawling over 11 acres, comprises four edifices, including a support centre housing offices, an amenity building, a fresh crew training facility designed for practical training in flight simulators and a corporate housing facility. Additionally, the campus boasts dedicated parking garages reserved for Spirit team members. This new hub provides a centralised locale for the airline’s key support teams and is conveniently located just a stone’s throw away from Spirit’s largest operational base at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport (FLL). Inside the new campus, design elements pay homage to Spirit, featuring an 18-foot-long model plane of the Airbus A321neo, a 3-D engine cowling, a gallery showcasing the iconic “Howdy” sharklet, a history wall and more. The principal buildings on the campus comprise:
Support Centre: The largest among the quartet of buildings, spanning approximately 180,000 ft², houses six floors of office space accommodating over 1,000 corporate team members from departments such as the Operations Control Centre, IT, Flight Operations and Inflight.
Fuelling Station: This amenity building, conveniently linked to the Support Centre’s ground floor, hosts a café, fitness centre and exclusive lounge spaces for Spirit’s team members.
Training Hub: A cutting-edge training facility for inflight and flight ops teams, boasting multiple high-tech flight simulator bays and fixed flight simulators, an advanced cabin emergency evacuation trainer (CEET), a door trainer, classrooms and debriefing rooms.
The Landing: This corporate housing facility serves as a home away from home for out-of-town team members on company business, offering accommodation for up to 400 team members, numerous meeting rooms, a grab-and-go market, a pool, a fitness centre and its own parking garage.
The relocation from Spirit’s previous facilities in Miramar, Florida, to Spirit Central in Dania Beach is anticipated to be finalised in the forthcoming weeks.
