What is the OT recommendation on Spirit airlines?

Great cheap fares


Then you have to pay a fee to print out your ticket, a fee to have a carry on, a fee for taking up the ticket counter clerk's time when you are taken aback by the fees, and a fee to process the fees

the savings you get on ticket price are removed by the time you check your bags and print your ticket. If you pack light and just have a carry-on, check in ahead of time and have your boarding pass printed out and don't drink or eat on the plane it's not horrible.

Have never heard a good thing about Spirit

Bring a parachute, just in case

Do not put yourself through that.

"It has been determined that passengers who like to be prepared tend to have heavier than normal luggage. Therefore, if you bring a parachute there will be a fee of 10 dollars on top of the fee for an additional carryon to help defray fuel costs and to ensure everyone has the cheapest fare possible."

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the savings you get on ticket price are removed by the time you check your bags and print your ticket. If you pack light and just have a carry-on, check in ahead of time and have your boarding pass printed out and don't drink or eat on the plane it's not horrible.

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You will also wind up spending more when they cancel your flight and you have to buy a same day ticket on a real airline. They are the only airline I have ever encountered who will not rebook you if they cancel (I.e. If American cancels they just rebook you on Delta and that's it).

On top of all the fees (to print your ticket at the airport, to choose a seat on the plane, to drink water on the plane and I kid you not they tried to charge for bathrooms but the FAA would not let them) they have few flights and even fewer planes. So a rock hitting the windshield in Alaska will cancel your flight in Miami and they'll blame it on weather in Cincinnati so they don't have to refund you.

Recommend finding another airline

If the flight is under 2 hours and you pack light, you will save some money and it might be worth it. Just know their seats are the most uncomfortable of any airline. They are narrower and with less cushion. Also the least amount of legroom of any airline unless you upgrade.

I've flown spirit a couple of times on a 5 hr nonstop flight and damn it is an uncomfortable experience in those hard tiny seats. And I'm not fat either.