Give me a break! Spirit Airlines-a discount airline is going to:

[Paper Roses]

Guess? Trying to find another way to charge you big $$.
They will soon start charging you $100.00 for CARRY-ON luggage. They have to be trying to commit suicide. This alone would send me to another carrier.
$100.00 to lug your own bags. Phooey!

[tammywammy]

1. According to their website it's not $100, and they've already been charging for carry-on

http://www.spirit.com/optionalfees.aspx

[frazzled]

2. From the several people I know who have flown Spirit

they have returned swearing never to fly it again at any cost. Apparently, it's not even worth a bargain price, much less a price that adds on $100 for carry-on.

PS: Expect to see charges for carry-on everywhere soon. I will design a body suit in which you can pack all your belongings for a three-day trip and wear it onto the plane.
I swear, pretty soon you'll buy a ticket that doesn't include the price of putting your body onto the plane. That'll be extra.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

4. I am old enough to remember when

flying was a luxury that only the well-off could afford. In fact I was 23-year-old when I took my first flight.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

9. I've flown Spirit numerous times from LA to Vegas and back.

Cramped seating and one flight smelled like urine. They don't call it an "airbus" for nothing.

On one occasion the landing was hard enough to drop some oxygen masks.

A lot of first time fliers so there are a lot of people who can't figure out where their seats are and since it's such close quarters the flight attendants can't get to them to show them. Often the time on the ground is extended as people find someone in their seat. They also overbook and offer a free flight to anyone who wants to skip the flight for the next one. Then there's the pushing of their credit card in flight.

The only thing good about Spirit was the flights for me were only an hour.

At one point they had flights to Vegas for $15. By taking public transportation to the airport it's possible to go from Anaheim to Las Vegas for about $20. (City bus one way to Metrolink to LAX.)

They shut down the kiosk early on my last flight so I had to get my boarding pass at the counter. They said it shuts down 45 minutes before the flight but it was down an hour and five minutes before the flight. Then they changed their story and said it shuts down an hour early. It was was like 55 minutes before the flight and I had been in line for over fifteen minutes. I told the agent, "You mean I would have made it if I hadn't kissed the girl?" which got a smile and a little less attitude.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

3. Others

will follow suit. Frankly, I wouldn't mind it if they charged $100 per for carry on and $50 per for checked bags....It would make boarding and deplaning easier and faster.

[bluestate10]

15. Makes flying safer and more comfortable.

I can't recline seats now because some bozo has stuck a big carry-on under my seat. I can't move my feet forward because another bozo has a big carry-on blocking my feet. I live in fear of a heavy carry-on flying out of an overhead. I started flying business class and first class and ran the risk of looking like an elitist ass to get away from carry-on mania back in coach. BTW, business class travelers don't generally carry over stuffed carry-ons, even if the asses do, the door is mere feet away.

[Sekhmets Daughter]

16. Agreed!

[monmouth]

5. Amtrak is looking better and better...n/t

[enlightenment]

7. Trains are great.

If only they crossed oceans . . .

[loli phabay]

13. rofl was my thought as well.

[avebury]

17. I love taking the tain and

enjoyed seeing England and Scotland that way. However, in the US is really isn't convenient for a lot of trips. I looks at the time and cost to go from Oklahoma to Florida and, frankly, I could have driven there faster then taking the train and the cost was absurd. We just don't have the train infrastructure like other countries have.

[FrodosPet]

20. Too bad they are more expensive than flying

I can't afford to fly OR take a train, but I do a lot of online vacation daydreaming.

From Detroit, you have to go through Chicago to go anywhere. I really would love to take a fall colors train trip through New England, but the only way it is happening is if I hit the lottery (especially now that my hours and already undersized paycheck have been cut down to $240 a week).

[SheilaT]

6. Cheap Flights.

You must watch this video.

[enlightenment]

8. Oh! I've never seen this.

Must have! Thanks for posting it, SheilaT.

[babylonsister]

10. That was hysterical-thanks! nt

[alittlelark]

11. That was most excellent!

[bluestate10]

12. Sounds like a good idea to me.

I develop a burning rage when I see person after person bringing packed suitcases as "carry-ons". The practice is dangerous. If a plane suffers turbulence a lot of that "carry-on" luggage is heavy enough to kill a person. I say more power to Spirit. Southwest started attacking heavy "carry-ons" year before last.

[loli phabay]

14. its better to fed ex your stuff and pick it up at your destination, a lot less hassle.

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. I've said for years they should charge for carry-on and let you check your bags for free.

It would eliminate the hassle of getting on the plane around people carrying huge bags, then standing in the aisle trying to cram them in the overhead bins and pulling them out once the plane lands. I've never once seen a gate agent actually use that thing that says your bag needs to be this size to check to see if a bag really was small enough to carry on. And how many people carry on more than one bag when the rule for years has been ONE bag?

This has been one of my pet peeves for years. They have rules and don't enforce them. It seems like every time I fly I end up standing in the aisle waiting for someone to get a bag into or out of an overhead bin. And I almost always end up sitting next to someone who has taken up more than their share of under seat space to stash their bags they didn't put in the overhead bins.

When I flew in July I got in line behind a woman who had a bag that weighed 100 pounds. They actually weighed it and told her she had to pay extra to check it. She said oh no, I'm carrying this bag on. It was the size of a horse and she thought she could just carry it on. When she walked away, the ticket agent was laughing.

[SheilaT]

19. I'm a former airline ticket agent.

National Airport, Washington DC. 1969 to 1979. I had the good fortune to leave at the very beginning of deregulation. And I can tell you, that we all knew exactly what a disaster deregulation was going to be.

Even then, people would try to carry on things that simply weren't suitable for carry on. It's simply gotten many magnitudes worse. I have myself, many times found that the space above my seat is already filled by someone else's carry on bag before I've gotten on board. It's now been five years since I've flown, but if I were to fly, and I were to see that the bin above my own seat is already full, I know that I'll simply take that bag out, put mine in, and let the flight attendant give that bag to its owner, who will probably then have to check it.