there are very few airlines left, so really what choices do you have? now I read that spirit and frontier may merge. (talk about discount carriers) . with each merger service gets worse, less flights and options and the price goes up. I have heard people recently say I will never fly this or that airline again. I just smile, yes they will! if that airline has a non stop and it is 75.00 less than the other competitor where they will need to change plans in dallas…yeah they will change their minds and the airlines are fully aware!
Frontier and Spirit merging? Two lousy service airlines merging. Can’t imagine their service will get worse. I won’t fl either one.
yeah a spirit/frontier combo would be like taking the worst player on every football team and starting a new team with just them!
http://www.airlinereporter.com/2016/01/could-spirit-and-frontier-merge-should-they/
DD flew Spirit to save money and said that her knees pressed into the seat in front of her and she is 5’4". I was going to try Spirit and read all of the fine print so that there are no surprise fees and was planning on choosing a seat with more leg room such as a “first class” seat because if you pay for all of the fees in advance, it’s still much cheaper than a regular airline. But then read about their poor plane routine maintenance so decided not to try Spirit.
“The middle seat on a 2 hour flight is not a big deal.”
Yeah right… try telling that to my husband who is between 6’3"and 6’4" and has broad shoulders…
I was sitting in a middle seat next to window-seated Mr. when the isle pax came to claim her seat. Her first words after seeing me, “Oh, good! A small person!” I almost rolled out of my seat laughing. She was skinny, and we all had a fabulous flight to OGG.
There’s a special place in hell for aisle-seat guys who “man-spread”.
As soon as it is legal to pull that bag from under the seat, I use it as a demarcation to claim “my” space if I am seated next to one of those isle manspreaders… Try to manspread into that! I do the same thing on the bus, too. I am that evil. 
The manspreading epidemic is pandemic:
Unless these jerks plan to procreate within the hour, they need to close their legs.
Where is the data to support Spirits poor equipment maintenance? I flew my son home at thanksgiving on Spirit for 1/4-1/3 of what the other big boys were charging. We read the fine print, were fine with all the fees (he only had a small backpack), but had I known about maintenance issues all that wouldn’t have mattered. Would love to see the cold hard facts so I can make an informed decision if and when the need to fly cheaply comes up.
There is also a special place in hell for women who think everyone within 50 feet want to smell their perfume. Getting stuck sitting by one of them on a plane stinks!
Shellz, googling the keywords unearthes a bunch of issues… I’m sure Spirit is safer than that Ubekibekistani Air my kid had to fly several times when she worked in Central Asia, but I’d rather pay extra $50 to fly her on a more reputable carrier here where there is a choice!
I wish the airlines would be proactive about posting “rules” that everyone is expected to follow. Women who wear a lot of perfume stink. Why won’t they just take a shower and be clean instead of covering up their filth and stench in heavy perfume?
If they would explain to people on the front end that it is against the rules to stink up the place, and against the rules to raise the armrest, and against the rules to sit in someone else’s seat, and so forth, the rest of us could have far more pleasant flights.
It is not just women and perfume these days, it is young men who wear way too much cologne. And wearing it has nothing to do with not being clean. I have sat behind a middle aged man in a tank top who must have come straight from the gym. Every time he raised his arms I gagged. I wish he had been wearing cologne.
@Tyberius I believe men should be required to have their shoulders covered on airplanes, and if necessary to implement this rule, women, too. I just don’t want to see some guy’s hairy armpit on a plane, or even worse be seated next to some super-hairy guy who has decided to wear a wife-beater.
I really wish we could have a new airline called “Club Air,” with a set of rules that people had to follow in order to fly. Anyone who douses themselves with perfume, or who wears a wife-beater, or who raises an armrest would just simply be kicked out of the club, never to fly Club Air again.
I thought you were naming it “Club” Air because that’s what the flight attendents will beat you with if you don’t follow the rules.
@GMTplus7 Clubs would come in useful. When I was a child my mother dressed me in a suit to fly. Even as a pre-teen I wore a tie while flying to and from camp (by myself, I might note, before the infantilization of American adolescence). I don’t know that I want to go back to that era, but I would love to put an end to the wife-beaters, etc.
(Changing the subject, but I can’t forget a CC post where a mother wasn’t willing for her college-aged children to fly alone because of the risk of pedophiles).