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AntisocialJusticeWarrior is not Anti-SJWBobby Finger
4/28/16 6:37pm
Literally never fly Spirit. Seriously. With all the add-on fees you’ll just end up paying the same amount you would have if you flew United or Delta anyway.
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  EmilyPosterchildAntisocialJusticeWarrior is not Anti-SJW
  4/28/16 6:45pm
  I did it once — all in, with the carry on bag, cancellations, and delays, it cost more than the Southwest flight I had to buy at the airport to replace the return flight that Spirit cancelled for no discernible reason. Never ever again.
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  Angelica SchuylerEmilyPosterchild
  4/28/16 6:50pm
  counterpoint: never fly spirit OR southwest
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Mental IcebergBobby Finger
4/28/16 6:34pm
The correct thing to do when life hands you lemons is to find someone to whom life gave vodka...and have a party!
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  AntisocialJusticeWarrior is not Anti-SJWMental Iceberg
  4/28/16 6:40pm
  I would argue a nice rye should be swapped for the vodka. But agreed!
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  deerlady83Mental Iceberg
  4/28/16 6:41pm
  I thought it was throw the lemons at life because it gave you lemons.
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randilynisFINDILYNBobby Finger
4/28/16 7:07pm

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  carlylandrandilynisFINDILYN
  4/28/16 7:14pm
  It’s like they hired a frat to run their marketing department.
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  randilynisFINDILYNcarlyland
  4/28/16 7:15pm
  Very true.
  
  I couldn’t find it but I think they even had one for DTF.
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Inspector SpacetimeBobby Finger
4/28/16 7:00pm
Fuck all the haters, Spirit is great. Do you have to pay extra for stuff? Yes, as it makes insanely explicit every step of the process. But that means if you don't need the extra stuff (e.g. I can easily get by on clothes stuffed in a backpack when flying to see my parents for a weekend) you get much cheaper flights which means if you're not filthy rich and live on the other side of the country as your family (aka me) you get to see your family like twice as often! As long as you know what you're getting into, Spirit is great and I personally am super glad it exists.
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  Klurry GlerbusInspector Spacetime
  4/28/16 7:08pm
  Agreed - quite frankly, I don’t give a rat’s ass about free sodas + picking my own seat + having a carry-on. I can easily fit a weekend’s worth of clothes/toiletries into a medium-sized tote and go visit friends for the price of a fancy meal out. (And then I can spend the $$$ I saved flying Spirit at the airport bar.)
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  randilynisFINDILYNInspector Spacetime
  4/28/16 7:09pm
  It always works for me. I do wind up extra-ing myself into the poorhouse but their times and airports etc just work.
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SqarrBobby Finger
4/28/16 6:33pm
The sign means, “If you need to pee, I’ll buy it!”
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  jinniSqarr
  4/28/16 6:37pm
  Conversely: if you need to pee, that will be a $25 dollar voucher.
  
  ETA: The graphics remind me less of Beyoncé, and more of The Dummies Guides covers.
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Angelica SchuylerBobby Finger
4/28/16 6:42pm
Did you have to pay for your seat on top of the ticket?

I tried to do Frontier last year, and by the time I had added a seat, a carry-on, and a checked bag, it was almost as much as a real carrier. So I said “fuck y’all” and flew United.
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  Dbeds15Angelica Schuyler
  4/29/16 9:25am
  Its an airline that heavily favors the “weekend” traveler. If you can live out of a backpack or carry on, then its a great airlines. Although, while spirit gets a lot of hate, american airlines delayed my 10pm flight 4 hours til 2am and gave us 5 dollar vouchers for MacDonalds at midnight for compensation. Oh and it had to be used immediately
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rusholmeruffianBobby Finger
4/28/16 7:18pm
I worked on the regulatory evaluation process for the Enhancing Airline Passenger Protections (EAPP) rulemaking by USDOT in 2010-11. One of the provisions of EAPP was the invalidation of venue provisions in the Contract of Carriage that binds all ticket purchases. A venue provision states that if you sue the other party in a contract, it has to be in a particular jurisdiction. It’s a dick move designed to discourage lawsuits, especially since companies often set the venue as somewhere wacky.

Spirit is literally the only airline that had a venue provision in its Contract of Carriage.
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Forever in the GreysBobby Finger
4/28/16 6:46pm
He’s obviously wearing women’s jeans and making a profound statement about the uselessness of the absurdly tiny pockets women are forced to deal with. Preach, bee man! Preach!
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  ᘻalcriaᖱaForever in the Greys
  4/28/16 9:53pm
  Crap. I should have checked before I posted the same thing.
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ZabellaBobby Finger
4/28/16 8:55pm
Frontier is just as awful, if not worse than Spirit. I like Frontier’s mascot thing, but like Spirit they sell a very cheap ticket... plus a fee to pick your seat... plus another fee for extra legroom and such... plus a fee to check a bag... plus a fee to bring a carry-on... plus a fee to board anything but last... if the FAA allowed it, they would charge a fee for flotation devices under the seats. Plus Frontier has tv at every seat, which starts off nice and then a message pops up that you will have to pay a fee to continue watching or listening (so perhaps worse).
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  JoanMillerTwoSuitsZabella
  4/29/16 10:17am
  I flew Frontier earlier this month. First and last time. A very drunk middle aged caucasian woman and her friend came on, asked for an exit row seat and were asked to wait. Right before the we backed away from the gate the flight attendant waved her and her friend into the exit row (normally a $50 fee but they didn’t charge so you knew something was up). The woman was already very drunk, btw. So, while we’re waiting for the flight the plane is making this terrible wheezing, thudding, clanking noise which was a new one for me. My friend comments on it and the drunk woman turns around and starts drunksplaining about stabilizers, “I work for the airline, I should know.” My friend says thanks, and we start talking about whatever (not loudly, btw) and then there’s a particularly loud thunk and my friend says something like, “Stabilizers, huh?” Woman turns back around, drunksplaining more. And her friend says, “You better listen, girl,” complete with wavering finger pointing, to my 50 year old friend. Well, whatever I guess. Then they start arguing with the person in the row in front about something, so we were off the hook. Then they each order double happy hour packages and beers and proceed to drink their way through the flight. They are scream talking the entire time, so no one around them could sleep. When someone asked her to quiet down the woman explained that she worked for the airline (this was not helping). The woman was almost too drunk to walk off the plane, she was grabbing seat backs and bashing her bag into everything. So, this is Frontier. I could live with everything else but, yeah, they sat an already drunk woman in the exit row, proceeded to radically overserve her. And, yeah, I do think she worked for the airline. I mean, I know if something happens on a plane you most likely die, but in case it happens during landing I’d like to feel like I have a halfway decent chance of getting out in time to live. ForGET it, Frontier. Never again.
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killaryclintonBobby Finger
4/28/16 6:47pm
Fuuuuuck Spirit. And fuck Frontier. Flying on both of them is a super unpleasant experience but Spirit makes it worse with their obnoxious fucking attitude.

It’s never worth it in the end because their constant nickel and diming ($10 to print your boarding pass at the airport, fuck you, I’m traveling and don’t have access to a printer!) makes them just as much as every other airline.
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  ᘻalcriaᖱakillaryclinton
  4/28/16 9:55pm
  Wow they charge to print a boarding pass? Shit.
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