Originally Posted by
beverage
Back in 2013-14 when Spirit was using Aerocrew job fairs, the tickets would sell out within seconds of being made available. Not exaggerating. If you had a slow internet connection you were SOL.
The ticket vendor Aerocrew used (Eventbrite I think it was) servers couldn't handle the pounding the instant the tickets went on sale at 12:00 EST and crashed. Aerocrew ultimately had to use a different outfit and the tickets sold out immediately when they were made available again a few hours later.
Oh how the times have changed.
I remember the tickets going on sale at 12:00. I checked out and got my confirmation at 12:02 and I was #140 out of 250.