The only "good deal" you get is from time to time, they send you information about the $9 airfare.
And you are eligible to purchase them.
$9 for one leg of your travel not a good deal enough for you? LOL
It's a very interesting deal if you happen to live in an area where Spirit Air goes.

yankeefan2525 said: POST IN HOT DEALS IN ORDER TO GET A SHIRT!

No, this belongs to Travel deals..Anyways moderators will move it back.

Dont mess with the system for a lousy t-shirt

I guess you don't know what todays date it

MelissaB said:I'm curious. I live 5 hours away from Detroit, the closest large city (I'm on the Canadian border and in the middle of almost nowhere) and recieve Spirit emails. My question is: how much do they add in fees to you trips?Varies somewhat by the trip, punch in your dates/destination and see.

PhatMullet said:
$9 for one leg of your travel not a good deal enough for you? LOL
It's a very interesting deal if you happen to live in an area where Spirit Air goes.

It wasn't that $9 wasn't/isn't a good deal...Just that, do you really get it for those prices? Sometimes it says something but not really that. The worst thing is that they never have flights leaving Chicago. I would have to fly out of Florida and it would cost 300 to even go to Florida.

I would think twice before flying this airline. They have an awful reputation for customer service, have been known to leave customers stranded and have little concern for those who are stuck. Even their CEO has commented that he doesn't care about penny pinching customers because they are not repeat customers. Google the company and check customer reviews.
Here's what the CEO had to say: http://www.gadling.com/2007/08/20/spirit-airline-woes-update-ceo-could-care-less/

checker said:...Wake up to reality, gas prices are sky high and the airlines do not have the luxury to take you around for free. Not Spirit's CEOs fault that James and Christine are freaking gold digging asses.

"I am pilot for another airline and am not about to make excuses for Spirit but the CEO's response actually hits the nail right on the head.

First off, what is this customer thinking? Ample time for their plans? You don't shell out hundreds of bucks for concert tickets and think you'll breeze into Atlanta (one of the busiest, most congested airports on the planet) in the middle of August expecting no problems. One thunderstorm and all bets are off. I don't if weather played any part in these delays but you would have to be a moron to book a late afternoon flight into Atlanta in the summertime expecting to waltz into the arena to your concert seats that evening - on ANY airline, What most people don't realize is that the weather doesn't have to be in Orlando or Atlanta or anywhere in between. There may have been a weather or maintenance issue at 9AM in Seattle that got this plane behind its schedule early and that delay ripples all day long. A certain percentage of flights on every airline will experience these types of delays on any given day. Plan on it!

Spirit may suck more than most, I don't know. I do know that all airlines have been driven by the cheap ticket mania and customer service is the first casualty."Did you read any of the messages posted on the blog? The vast majority have nothing to do with people being p*ssed off about delay due to weather, in fact, many had comments to the effect of "I know weather delays happen and other problems occur...". What has most of the people mad is the way Spirit handles the situation once that has happens. They seem to (almost methodically) attempt to deliver the worst customer service possible. It doesn't take any effort to be honest with people -- don't tell everyone at the gate the plane is delayed by 30 minutes when you know for a fact that it is still sitting on the ground in an airport an hour away! It doesn't cost any more money to give out correct information or make an attempt at being pleasant.

I fly a few dozen flights a years for business and pleasure, I have flown twice on Spirit, had problems with horrible customer service both times (I gave them a second chance!) My last flight was back to Orlando from Costa Rica through Ft. Lauderdale; overnight flight out of San Jose was delayed (hey that happens) so we got into Ft. Lauderdale with only hour and half for the connection. Customs was backed up (again not Spirit's fault), but even with the delays, we still had a shot at the connection to MCO if we got our bags re-checked in time. Followed the "Re-check Bags" signs to a line that had everyone from out flight and one other flight standing and waiting to be serviced by one CSR. Some of the people in line had alread missed their flight, so they needed to be rebooked, others like us just need the bags re-checked for the connection. The one CSR there seemed completely unfamiar with the ticketing process and seemed to spend ten minutes with each passenger: I assume her job normally is just re-checking the bags for connections.

No attempt was made to separate the ones that could have still made connections and take care of them first or tell the ones that needed rebooking to go to the regular counter (a logical and simple process). One additional person could have handled all the bags for connections in fairly short order. People in line started self-organizing and letting people who had a chance at a connection to go to the front of the line. The one CSR called on the phone to main counter several times telling the manager to send someone down (I think she feared a riot), no one ever came, they just hung her out to dry. Long story short, we missed our connection because of poor, unorganized service and they wanted to put us on a Spirit flight ten hours later, refused to even consider another airline with an earlier flight. We rented a car for $30 instead and were home in few hours.

In my opinion, yes, they do suck more than most arlines.

Yes, times are tough for the airline, but that is still no excuse. Maybe if they made an effort to provide good sevice in these tough times, they might get more (and repeat) business. Instead they seem to go out of their way to p*ss off the customers that they do have -- not much of a business model IMHO.

jaxjaguar said:I just flew this airline and will not fly again unless I get a super cheap ticket.

Here are some hidden costs people should know about:

• $50 for each checked baggage, round-trip
  
• To choose your seat, $5 to $15 each way (or each leg?) depending on the seat you want. If you don't pay, you get a random seat during check-in.
  
• Absolutely no complimentary snacks or beverage offered... not even water. Bring your own or plan on spending a little.
  

By the time you add the "extra's" the ticket could cost you more than a comparable flight on another airline.

EDIT:
I should also note my experience with them... I flew to Puerto Rico from Orlando. Both ways, the flights were delayed. At the gates, they don't have enough seating for all the passengers to wait so there are people and baggage all over the floors and walkways. At the ticket counter from Orlando, the line was a mile long.. even the line curbside was longer than any I have ever seen. At the ticket counter in PR, there were only 2 employees and no self service kiosks.

not really. especially your $50 for each checked baggage. that's standard on your "other" airlines nowadays

"Here are some hidden costs people should know about..."

That's perhaps why when you shop around for airfare, you should add ALL fees involved (like you frequent FW'ers tell us "shipping kils the deal"...). BTW, in those flights to Mexico / Central America figure you'd have to pay ~ $100 ( ~ $90 to SDQ-Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic, for example) of Gov't taxes / fees (before whatever the airline imposes to you...).

In my case (from SJU-San Juan, PR) I only have to price NK (Spirit) if I ever go to MCO (Orlando), since they're discontinuing the flights to FLL (Ft. Lauderdale). Hope B6 (JetBlue) gets 'em (much better airline, still moderately cheap)...