Posted on 08/12/2025 6:09:55 AM PDT by Red Badger
Have that on 45!........................
The Spirit approach means you are incrementally charged for everything. I think our expectations of free peanuts or a soda from other airlines taints that.
In theory, since I have a libertarian streak, I like this, but the hassle of each tiny incremental item being another charge occasion reminds me of the logical extension of roads for tolls. In other words, yes, government can make no roads and allow private land owners to charge a toll for every new property you now have to pass through, but manning those toll places and not knowing what was fully included or allowed for each land owners’ land makes things incredibly inefficient and not practical. This is how Spirit works, though. There's no “complete” package to buy to lose all the one-off hassles, mimicking a normal airline ticket.
I personally know a Spirit pilot, so I hope he comes out of this, well. He's a truly nice guy.
Maybe they could charge for oxygen on the flights. I think that’s the only thing they DON’T already charge for.
Pilots always do well..................
But think of all the publicity Spirit Airlines gets on Youtube!
Maybe they should pay per view flights.
How can we exist without the 3am Waffle House of air travel?
Spirit needs to do three things:
1. Replace seats with seats that recline at least a bit, like Southwest.
2. Adopt Southwest’s model for open seating, single class, and free luggage...now that Southwest has abandoned all of that.
3. Run credit checks on every customer so they’re no longer the “Carnival of the Airways”.
Other airlines would likely throw a bunch of cash Spirit’s way just to keep Spirit’s customers from using other airlines.
>Terrible airline. Have never not had a problem flying them.
Absolutely. Survival of the fittest, I don’t think anybody will miss their crappy service if they were to just go away
Spirit Airlines won’t survive b/c of its reputation of hauling around the most depraved segment of society.
Fights at the Spirit Airlines terminal - and on their planes - are all over the news.
Ditto for the Princess Cruise line.
Actually, Greyhound isn’t so bad these days. My daughter took Greyhous a couple of years ago to go back to college - the buses had just been revamped - she said the bus was clean, well maintained, seats were in good shape and there was free WiFi.
Spirit Airlines is the Princess Cruises of the sky...
GOOD IDEA!........................
Not so sure about #1, especially for flights less than 3 hours. I actually like their rocker back seats so no jag-off can trap you for the duration of the flight.
It has happened to me on MORNING flights and isn't fun.
Nooooo! and have their clientele flock to other airlines?
I have never heard anything good said about them from anyone ever.
Here’s one:
It’s a good thing they exist so we can fly on other airlines.................. 😏
Here’s one:
It’s a good thing they exist so we can fly on other airlines.................. 😏
Spirit has a very useful role in containing the many of the most disruptive people who fly. If Spirit goes away, those people end up on better airlines and causing trouble for the rest of us.
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