Spirit Air -- $54 to check my bags and get assigned seats!

Ok, this is just a midday rant, lol...but just booked my flights for
the GGC down to Fort Lauderdale in February and....on Spirit Air,
which generally I like (new planes, leather seats) it was $15 to check
a bag (x2) and $24 to get assigned seats for $54 total! And people
say you get nickle and dimed on cruises....lol. Oy!!!

Jeff

On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:02:18 -0800 (PST), jeffcoud wrote:

Ok, this is just a midday rant, lol...but just booked my flights for
the GGC down to Fort Lauderdale in February and....on Spirit Air,
which generally I like (new planes, leather seats) it was $15 to check
a bag (x2) and $24 to get assigned seats for $54 total! And people
say you get nickle and dimed on cruises....lol. Oy!!!

That is becoming the norm around the World. Wait until they start charging $1 a sheet for toilet paper!

Will carry my own toilet tissue,but they also charged for it in the
vatican in rome,only to find out when you got inside the so called
restroom there was lots and lots of rolls of toilet tissue for free,but
would not use the restroom because you had to straddle a hole in the
floor to use it.





cruise lover(~~~~~)






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jeffcoud wrote:
Ok, this is just a midday rant, lol...but just booked my flights for
the GGC down to Fort Lauderdale in February and....on Spirit Air,
which generally I like (new planes, leather seats) it was $15 to check
a bag (x2) and $24 to get assigned seats for $54 total! And people
say you get nickle and dimed on cruises....lol. Oy!!!

This is what flying is coming to, but I bet you got a good price on the
flights.lol

sue

On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:30:55 +1100, Gettamulla Tupya wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:02:18 -0800 (PST), jeffcoud wrote:

Ok, this is just a midday rant, lol...but just booked my flights for
the GGC down to Fort Lauderdale in February and....on Spirit Air,
which generally I like (new planes, leather seats) it was $15 to check
a bag (x2) and $24 to get assigned seats for $54 total! And people
say you get nickle and dimed on cruises....lol. Oy!!!

That is becoming the norm around the World. Wait until they start charging $1 a sheet for toilet paper!

and when getting a seat instead of sitting on the floor is an optional
expense.

"AZ Nomad" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:30:55 +1100, Gettamulla Tupya
wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:02:18 -0800 (PST), jeffcoud
wrote:

Ok, this is just a midday rant, lol...but just booked my flights for
the GGC down to Fort Lauderdale in February and....on Spirit Air,
which generally I like (new planes, leather seats) it was $15 to check
a bag (x2) and $24 to get assigned seats for $54 total! And people
say you get nickle and dimed on cruises....lol. Oy!!!

That is becoming the norm around the World. Wait until they start
charging $1 a sheet for toilet paper!

and when getting a seat instead of sitting on the floor is an optional
expense.

No sitting on the floor allowed... but you might fly "standing room only"

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/20...S_GRAPHIC.html
and
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/25seats.html

George L

George Leppla wrote:

"AZ Nomad" wrote in message
...
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 07:30:55 +1100, Gettamulla Tupya
wrote:
On Mon, 29 Dec 2008 12:02:18 -0800 (PST), jeffcoud
wrote:

Ok, this is just a midday rant, lol...but just booked my flights for
the GGC down to Fort Lauderdale in February and....on Spirit Air,
which generally I like (new planes, leather seats) it was $15 to check
a bag (x2) and $24 to get assigned seats for $54 total! And people
say you get nickle and dimed on cruises....lol. Oy!!!

That is becoming the norm around the World. Wait until they start
charging $1 a sheet for toilet paper!

and when getting a seat instead of sitting on the floor is an optional
expense.

No sitting on the floor allowed... but you might fly "standing room only"

http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/20...S_GRAPHIC.html

and
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/25seats.html

George L

I noticed this at the bottom of the article, thank goodness:

Correction: May 4, 2006
A front-page article on April 25 about seating options that airlines are
considering to accommodate more passengers in economy class referred
incorrectly to the concept of carrying passengers standing up with
harnesses holding them in position. During preparation of the article,
The Times's questions to one aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, were
imprecise and did not make it clear that the reporter was interested in
standing-room "seats." As a result, the article said the company would
not specifically comment on the upright-seating proposal. The company
now says that while it researched that idea in 2003, it has since
abandoned it. A correction of the article appeared on this page on
Tuesday. It should have acknowledged that if The Times had correctly
understood the history of the proposal, the article would have qualified
it, and would not have appeared on Page A1.


It's embarrassing enough when I have to go back to coach while Mrs Nonny
flies first class. If I also had to stand, while she lounged on the
thick leather seats, drinking free booze and eating lobster as I munched
on pretzels, it would be terrible and I'd probably quit carrying her
suitcase for her.


--
Nonny
Good health is merely the
slowest possible rate at
which you can die.

George Leppla wrote:


http://www.nytimes.com/imagepages/20...S_GRAPHIC.html

and
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/25/business/25seats.html

George L

I noticed this at the bottom of the article, thank goodness:

Correction: May 4, 2006
A front-page article on April 25 about seating options that airlines are
considering to accommodate more passengers in economy class referred
incorrectly to the concept of carrying passengers standing up with
harnesses holding them in position. During preparation of the article,
The Times's questions to one aircraft manufacturer, Airbus, were
imprecise and did not make it clear that the reporter was interested in
standing-room "seats." As a result, the article said the company would
not specifically comment on the upright-seating proposal. The company
now says that while it researched that idea in 2003, it has since
abandoned it. A correction of the article appeared on this page on
Tuesday. It should have acknowledged that if The Times had correctly
understood the history of the proposal, the article would have qualified
it, and would not have appeared on Page A1.


It's embarrassing enough when I have to go back to coach while Mrs Nonny
flies first class. If I also had to stand, while she lounged on the
thick leather seats, drinking free booze and eating lobster as I munched
on pretzels, it would be terrible and I'd probably quit carrying her
suitcase for her.


--
Nonny
Good health is merely the
slowest possible rate at
which you can die.

On Dec 29, 3:02 pm, jeffcoud wrote:
Ok, this is just a midday rant, lol...but just booked my flights for
the GGC down to Fort Lauderdale in February and....on Spirit Air,
which generally I like (new planes, leather seats) it was $15 to check
a bag (x2) and $24 to get assigned seats for $54 total! And people
say you get nickle and dimed on cruises....lol. Oy!!!

Jeff

Yeah, but today I could have booked a flight non-stop from A.C. to Ft
Myers Feb. 20-27 for $3 each way. For my husband and I the total cost
was $54, which included taxes and fees. However, my husband can't get
that week off from work. But I did get a flight for March 5-13 for $9
each way.

I opt not to pay for seat assignment.

Jo-Ann

NONNY:
you do not even get pretzels on a plane anymore





cruise lover(~~~~~)






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