I live in Clearwater, just about 30-45 min North of Sarasota

I used to always just fly out of Tampa, and got fairly good deals, but if you fly out of Tampa you always have to layover in Ft. Lauderdale or Miami which is just no fun!

Then 3 years ago I found out that Jet Blue has a direct flight out of Orlando. I have been doing that ever since. It is about anhour drive for us, but completely worth it. Jet Blue is an awesome airline, having a direct flight has now completely spoiled us, and I think the most we have paid was around $300-325 for a roundtrip flight....the lowest was around $225

I HIGHLY recommend the direct flight on Jet Blue from Orlando!

I would definitely NOT recommend ANY flight from anywhere on Spirit Airlines

Hope that helps!