re: Is Spirit Airlines that bad?

No thanks. In fact I’m pretty much capping SWA flights at 90 minutes now. Anything more than that I want Delta, United, American, etc.

Spirit employees fight with passengers

Last time I was on SWA was to MSY in 2019 and a fat girl sat next to me. Tbh I've fared far better on Delta's basic economy- at least there I don't have to worry about holding my screen

THose super cheap airlines are a roll of the dice. 1/10 times you get royally screwed one way or another. 9/10 times you are fine.

Contrast that with the mainline carriers where you get screwed 1/20 times, but they are a lot more accommodating and will help you recover. That's the big value add.

I got bent over by Breeze last year this time. Next week flying Delta to CHS through ATL for much more money because Breeze screwed up so bad and wouldn't help me recover at all.

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a lot more accommodating and will help you recover

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100%
My family and I were flying right after Xmas during the big SWA screwup. They bent over backwards to make it right and I ended up making money on the deal with vouchers and reimbursements.

Too add, if it’s non-stop, odds are way better to not have major problems. When you get into connecting flights, that’s where you might have problems.
We had Spirit for New Years, only the connecting flight had problems. The connecting flight was cancelled, but my cousin, the travel agent, had another flight lined up before the original flight had touched down. A travel agent can track every flight that their folks are on.

It's not bad at all if you get the big front seat. But if you sit from the wings back you'll be in some shite.

Recently booked Spririt from Nola to Orlando straight shot for $78 per person round trip.

12:30 pm departure delayed to 4:30 pm. Oh boy.

4:30 pm delayed to 6:30 pm.

6:30 pm delayed to 8:30 pm. Oh boy.

We boarded the plane at 9:30 pm, sat on the plane for 2 hrs having never pushed back from the gait until 11:30 pm, only to deplane because our flight had been cancelled at 11:30 pm.

Got off plane, got our luggage, checked into Holliday Inn on Veterans at 1 am, only to set alarm for 4 am to be at airport and do all the security bullshite again to catch the 6:50 am flight. We arrived in Orlando exhausted, and way too early to check in to our hotel.

Other people missed a family wedding altogether. What a waste.

NEVER. EVER. FLYING. SPIRIT AIRLINES. EVER. AGAIN.

And I was warned ("good luck if your plane takes off on time" and "good luck with your connections") by a few people, but laughed it off.

Boy, were they right.

Spirit gave us $7 per person voucher for food while we ate in the airport.

A lot pf people were genuinely pissed off after spending an entire day at the airport.

I have had ok experiences with Spirit but after my most recent trip will never fly Spirit again for many of the reasons posted. Have a buddy who is a Captain for Spirit and he explained it to me that their biggest issue is along the same lines as what screwed Southwest recently. They fly point to point routes and lack true hubs. So if anything gets behind then it starts to have a downstream snowball effect. They often have planes at the gate but will lack the crew to fly them. And given that they don't code share they have no way to move their crews around.