Au contraire mon frere (Been in the bus too long). I got it, you were poking at Sailor for a typo -probably an auto correct. Yes, when I attack, its on the offensive. Is there another way to attack?


Oh, and since we are playing the spelling / grammar game... here -> '
There is the apostrophe I owe you for "its" instead of "it's" above. Saved you a post kid. You're welcome!

 

I don't know about ORD but in FLL last time my wife had a paying ticket we got stopped in the TSA line by a Spirit agent who checked her ticket. The agent reminded us that we will have to pay $100 for that carry on she was pulling. I told her she was with me but she kept arguing. She was definitely persistent until I started puling her bag too. Her only purpose was to remind people about the fee. This was back when the fee was introduced.

I am sure people are reminded at check in, yet there is always a passenger who wants to pull a quick one. I just saw one in DFW. But even those have a way out. They can call a number and pay over the phone before boarding and pay like $40. As long they have time.

 

So a clear joke on a spelling error leads you to attack with Spirit's margins as industry leading? Who gives two craps about Spirit margins? Where does that even come into the conversation? Why do you "3" pilots consistently use Spirit metrics in every argument, when it's totally irrelevant?

 

I wish people would do the math on the LCC. If you really have to get there the majors are better since their route structure is more extensive and they can reroute you lots of different ways. So if delta is 300 and spirit is 280 delta should be the obvious choice but the average pleasure traveler doesn't get their and yells at the agents about how they really have to get to their wedding that they will miss because the weather canceled one of only three flights to get their in the LCC of their choice.

 

There has got to be an LCC merger brewing right now....that'll expand the network for that stranded pax. But seriously, I bet there is another merger in the works, and it will be at the LCC level.

 

It's a weird thing when a passenger buy a tickets.
To give you an example, a few years back, people would pay $40 less to fly ORD-CLE-MIA (google the distance) on a erj45 vs AA ORD-MIA, that was and is still common.

LCC's are attractive to a lot of passengers, JB, NK, VX and oh I forgot SW. They all offer a service for less than the majors -legacy-, and sometimes a lot less.

Many times the math works for the people to buy tickets on LCC's and it shows that way , since all of these LCC are successfully working their routes.

I agree with you about frequency, but most today do have a way to re-route you and non of these LCC will leave you behind with your wedding dress because of a weight limitation -carrying extra fuel for weather-, you are aware of the smaller jets that fly for the LEGACY's?, yeah the leaving you behind happens everywhere, and weather also affect the LEGACYs, when they cancel for weather everyone knows.

 

It's not irrelevant. That is where my paycheck comes from.
To bust on someone for a missing coma is petty, and completely lacking comedic value.
I'm betting you are one of those "YOU'RE ON GUARD!!!!!!!" knobs.

 

What you wrote was petty, because you made it NK vs VX (yet again). Your post wasn't funny in any way, it was just stupid. And no, I'm not a guard nazi. Unlike quite a few pilots out there, I keep this job simple.

 

Just because two airlines have lower fares and less frills doesn't mean they will merge. Allegiant is small city only, Spirit is large city only. No overlap. Frontier is trying everything it can to compete, but I think a merger with them is equally unlikely. Why merge with them? To get Denver gates? To get a foothold in Trenton? None of this makes sense. Mergers are almost always bad for pilots anyways.

 

The problem here is that on the Spirit website, you can't proceed without acknowledging the fees. But on third party websites, there is only a small warning in the corner somewhere saying you need to look at the individual airline's web page to be aware of the fees, and nobody bothers to do that. I will tell you I had a passenger on the other day that said she didn't sympathize with the complainers because if you pay attention, there are no surprises. She knew exactly what she was paying, and loved Spirit for being half of what Delta was.