Casssh her outside....the airport

I like Spirit.

It's not like they're declaring that they're a full service carrier and give you the Presto-Changeo at the airport with fees and such.

The pains in the ass are people that don't read, bring their "bus" mentality to the airport (and every airline gets them, but obviously in varying amounts) and well, act a fool.
 
Spirit isn't bad if you are in a bind and have the ability to Fedex your stuff to your destination. Can't say anything about G4 though.


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Derg said:
I like Spirit.

It's not like they're declaring that they're a full service carrier and give you the Presto-Changeo at the airport with fees and such.

The pains in the ass are people that don't read, bring their "bus" mentality to the airport (and every airline gets them, but obviously in varying amounts) and well, act a fool.
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A Spirit gate agent tried to make me pay for a carry on while in uniform once. Other than that it's not too bad of a ride. I did see an irate passenger getting quite testy with a FA to point where I almost intervened right before push back. But she handled him pretty well and he was escorted off.
 
It's been almost a decade since I darkened the doorway of a ULCC, but if the behavior of the peasants in the back of the legacies is any barometer, I'd expect a chorus of "Jerry, Jerry!" every time. I'd rather walk.
 
B200 Hawk said:
HAHAHA. Who flew her?

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The teen whose “cash me outside” remark on the “Dr. Phil” show turned her into an internet sensation, admitted to punching an airline passenger who she claimed pushed her mother.

Danielle Bregoli, 13, and her mom Barbara Ann were struggling to put luggage in the overhead compartment on a Spirit Airlines flight Monday night out of Los Angeles, when they got into a squabble with a female passenger, TMZ reported.

“She was saying she was going to fight me. My mom was like put your hands on my kid. My mom took her by her throat, pushed her back and then the lady pushed my mom back,” said Bregoli, on an Instagram video posted early Tuesday. “She got her ass whooped by a f–king 13-year-old cause you wanna’ do heroin and snort f–king crack and drink.”
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http://www.foxnews.com/travel/2017/...rtedly-punched-spirit-airlines-passenger.html
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Not me...
 
Derg said:
I like Spirit.

It's not like they're declaring that they're a full service carrier and give you the Presto-Changeo at the airport with fees and such.

The pains in the ass are people that don't read, bring their "bus" mentality to the airport (and every airline gets them, but obviously in varying amounts) and well, act a fool.
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I'm no Spirit apologist, because there's plenty they could do better. Plenty! However, I also have zero sympathy for people who don't read the details of their purchase. All the information is readily available when booking a ticket. So you're either too stupid to understand what you're buying or you're trying to get one up on the man. Either way, you're gonna lose.

As for the gate agents and many others working Spirit flights...they're almost entirely subcontractors making minimum wages and having no real training or ownership of the operation. Sooo, at times, things are gonna get ugly and those minimally trained personnel are going to make mistakes.
 
Cruise said:
I'm no Spirit apologist, because there's plenty they could do better. Plenty! However, I also have zero sympathy for people who don't read the details of their purchase. All the information is readily available when booking a ticket. So you're either too stupid to understand what you're buying or you're trying to get one up on the man. Either way, you're gonna lose..
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I would say "read the fine print", but the terms of a passengers ticket purchase isn't even in fine print at your shop, if I remember right. It's right there plainly staring you in the face as you go through making an online purchase. So to not know what you purchased, one would have to have been well versed in the moron category, or refusing to pay attention.
 
MikeD said:
I would say "read the fine print", but the terms of a passengers ticket purchase isn't even in fine print at your shop, if I remember right. It's right there plainly staring you in the face as you go through making an online purchase. So to not know what you purchased, one would have to have been well versed in the moron category, or refusing to pay attention.
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Precisely why I have zero sympathy for those who get to the gate and 'don't understand' that bags do not fly free, and you need to purchase beverages, etc... Oh yeah, you didn't know? Oh well...next time you will (and yes, despite what you say now, you will be back (the figurative you...not you, Mike)).
 
Cruise said:
Precisely why I have zero sympathy for those who get to the gate and 'don't understand' that bags do not fly free, and you need to purchase beverages, etc... Oh yeah, you didn't know? Oh well...next time you will (and yes, despite what you say now, you will be back (the figurative you...not you, Mike)).
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The couple of times I've flown Spirit, it was easy and efficient. I purchased a ticket and a few perks. But I knew what I was purchasing, and the big thing was I didn't expect more than that, however I didn't receive less than that. I literally got what I paid for....go figure! Was a fine experience, and I knew at all points of the purchase exactly what I was paying for. Like an itemized bill.
 
Derg said:
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And people somehow find themselves absolutely confused! ha! :)
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Most articles and people stories I hear on Spirit doesn't have much to do with that.... that's already written crystal clear. It's the times of delays and cancellations from a controllable factor (eg, crew issues) and then a lack of ability to recover the cancelled flight relatively quickly. The model is and can be sometimes just one or two flights a day between the city pairs. Once you're done for the day, you're probably done. Like we (wife+kid confirmed ticket) were once on the late afternoon LGA-DTW flight. Once cancelled, we had no option that day. Not even until a full 24 hrs later and even that was a 'maybe' because it was oversold and we'd be standby. I walked away from this and got same day AA ZED tickets on a CR7 that left 2 hrs from then that had enough seats for all 3 of us, so it worked out. But the rest of the paying pax of course were frustrated in a New York manner. I'm just glad to get out of that situation relatively quickly. Now had it been Delta, United, American, they have the ability to rebook on other airlines and the solution could easily have been "hey we can't get you on this flight as it cancelled, but there is another LGA-DTW in 2 hrs and we can rebook you on that. Or a EWR-DTW if you get out to EWR." etc. It's about options, which you usually don't get with the LCC model. And it's not just a Spirit problem.
 
True, but internline agreements and rebookings increase costs. The public needs to realize that "things cost stuff" and that in order to bring a consumer that comparatively low fare, you need to have different expectations than you would with a full service carrier.
 
Derg said:
True, but internline agreements and rebookings increase costs. The public needs to realize that "things cost stuff" and that in order to bring a consumer that comparatively low fare, you need to have different expectations than you would with a full service carrier.
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People continually want a Ruth's Chris steak at a Sizzler price.
 
Derg said:
True, but internline agreements and rebookings increase costs. The public needs to realize that "things cost stuff" and that in order to bring a consumer that comparatively low fare, you need to have different expectations than you would with a full service carrier.
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Put that in their same disclosure as that image above, and we're all on the same page :)
 
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