ULCC or American?
06-03-2022, 08:00 AM
#191
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Originally Posted by JulesWinfield
Yeah, but once you factor in luggage and strollers, assigned seats together, and what not, you won’t save anything going on a ULCC.
Occasionally ulcc will be same or higher then a legacy but usually they are not more or even close.
06-03-2022, 08:19 AM
#192
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Originally Posted by ULLI
Yes.... You do. Even if it's $30/person. Depending on the size of the family it adds up. Family of 4 doesn't mean 4 checked bags! Numbers is one thing you can't argue!
Occasionally ulcc will be same or higher then a legacy but usually they are not more or even close.
Occasionally ulcc will be same or higher then a legacy but usually they are not more or even close.
06-03-2022, 08:29 AM
#193
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Originally Posted by JulesWinfield
ULCCs charge for carryons, too, even the little kid’s luggage doesn’t fit in the free bin. Assuming just carryons, that’s $160-$200 each way in just bag fees. Add a stroller and the fees to pick a seat, and you are north of $350 each way in fees.
"We will happily check one stroller and one car seat per child for no extra cost at the ticket counter."
06-03-2022, 08:37 AM
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Originally Posted by JulesWinfield
ULCCs charge for carryons, too, even the little kid’s luggage doesn’t fit in the free bin. Assuming just carryons, that’s $160-$200 each way in just bag fees. Add a stroller and the fees to pick a seat, and you are north of $350 each way in fees.
When my family of four travels via a legacy, we each have our own little rollerbags. But if we were going to travel via a ULCC and trying to save money, we wouldn't travel that way. We'd fit it all into one checked bag and just have a backpack to carry anything the four of us needed during the trip, maybe not even that if we could make my wife's purse do the job. Truth is, as someone with travel bennies, I don't pay for travel these days so I don't know the numbers for comparison but I'd be willing to bet that I'd be WAY cheaper with a ULCC than a legacy doing that.
06-03-2022, 08:37 AM
#195
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Originally Posted by JulesWinfield
ULCCs charge for carryons, too, even the little kid’s luggage doesn’t fit in the free bin. Assuming just carryons, that’s $160-$200 each way in just bag fees. Add a stroller and the fees to pick a seat, and you are north of $350 each way in fees.
06-03-2022, 08:43 AM
#196
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Originally Posted by CincoDeMayo
Stroller fees?
"We will happily check one stroller and one car seat per child for no extra cost at the ticket counter."
"We will happily check one stroller and one car seat per child for no extra cost at the ticket counter."
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06-03-2022, 10:55 AM
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Originally Posted by JulesWinfield
Yeah, but once you factor in luggage and strollers, assigned seats together, and what not, you won’t save anything going on a ULCC.
Go look up a route right now between any legacy and either frontier or spirit. with bags. and hell throw in a coke per person per leg at $3.
If you find a flight where it's still cheaper, I will eat my words.
Last time we flew BWI-DFW it was $640 per person RT on american, $120 per person on spirit. even IF all 5 of us checked a bag AND brougth a carryon AND bought a big front seat AND got 3 alcoholic drinks per flight, it was still WAY cheaper.
This was November 2021 FYI.
06-03-2022, 01:20 PM
#199
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Originally Posted by Aero1900
I just bought tickets for the family. I cross shopped United and Frontier. With Frontiers fees, it was half the price of United. Which charges for bags too btw..
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