Spirit Airlines

[FritterGirl]

[QUOTE=catch22;939396]I don't work for Spirit, but when I worked in OKC we had a mystery bag disappear on the direct OKC-SFO flight. The customer was not connecting in SFO. It was scanned as loaded in OKC...but never arrived in SFO.

So, not defending Spirit, but weird things happen at the airport that you would never think of.

Well, in this case, two of the five of us who were traveling together lost bags, as did two other passengers on the same flight (not sure if they ever got theirs). My friend traveling with me had to go through the same routine of paperwork. We are starting to wonder if the bags weren't just stolen off of the belt in Las Vegas, especially considering our flight got in at midnight.

The larger issue is that Spirit doesn't have an automated bag check system. They still work off an old "sticker" manifest system, which is done by hand, so bar codes are not scanned. Spirit's idea of trying to retrieve the bag is to email other baggage departments within Spirit's network to see if a bag has shown up.

[Just the facts]

A penny saved is a penny earned - Benjamin Franklin.

[Bellaboo]

For example, look "how hard" they are working to turn that $1000 into 'only' $400, using completely made-up numbers. They whittle it down enough, then they proudly crow about how it 'only' works out to $62/hour, and you are a worthless plebe if you think that's any kind of money.

The irony being that not a single person reading this makes $62/hour.

Are you sure about that ?

[BoulderSooner]

Are you sure about that ?

This.

Considering. There are attorneys /engineers / various business people on this site. It is a pretty easy bet that several make 125k a year or over.

[AP]

I made my argument not to say that DFW is better than OKC in any way, but to say that our pricing here is not competitive and it is clear why there is leakage to DFW. In most cases it just makes more financial sense for people.

[jerrywall]

Are you sure about that ?

I was gonna say, I can't speak for others, but my hourly rates are significantly higher than $62 an hour.

(Engineering - keep your minds out of the gutter! :P )

[Mike_M]

I made my argument not to say that DFW is better than OKC in any way, but to say that our pricing here is not competitive and it is clear why there is leakage to DFW. In most cases it just makes more financial sense for people.

Yup, for the record, I find WRWA to be a fine mid-sized airport and have always had pleasant experiences, but the money it costs to fly out of it is just not worth it in most cases.

[catch22]

[QUOTE=FritterGirl;939467]

I don't work for Spirit, but when I worked in OKC we had a mystery bag disappear on the direct OKC-SFO flight. The customer was not connecting in SFO. It was scanned as loaded in OKC...but never arrived in SFO.

So, not defending Spirit, but weird things happen at the airport that you would never think of.

Well, in this case, two of the five of us who were traveling together lost bags, as did two other passengers on the same flight (not sure if they ever got theirs). My friend traveling with me had to go through the same routine of paperwork. We are starting to wonder if the bags weren't just stolen off of the belt in Las Vegas, especially considering our flight got in at midnight.

The larger issue is that Spirit doesn't have an automated bag check system. They still work off an old "sticker" manifest system, which is done by hand, so bar codes are not scanned. Spirit's idea of trying to retrieve the bag is to email other baggage departments within Spirit's network to see if a bag has shown up.

Southwest also does not scan bags.

Up until about 2012 Continental did not use bag scanning either. And neither did Frontier the last time I worked one of their trips.

All done on "bingo" sheets.

[zookeeper]

I made my argument not to say that DFW is better than OKC in any way, but to say that our pricing here is not competitive and it is clear why there is leakage to DFW. In most cases it just makes more financial sense for people.

Exactly, thank you AP. Same here, it's not a city difference in any way. It's a discussion on air fares from the two airports. My post about Buffet's stressing this all the time was meant only to show that what some see as convenience and choose not to save is too often inconsistent with people working hard to turn $100 into $1000. The amount one earns really has nothing to do with it.

[FritterGirl]

[QUOTE=catch22;939562]

Southwest also does not scan bags.

Up until about 2012 Continental did not use bag scanning either. And neither did Frontier the last time I worked one of their trips.

All done on "bingo" sheets.

Interesting. The Spirit staff told us that they were the only airline that used the manual method and did not have an auto-scanning system in place. They said that was one reason they were so slow in responding to us after several inquiries and attempts to reach them.

[catch22]

I don't think Southwest even uses the bingo sheets to pull stickers from the bag tags. They just take them to the plane, count the bags manually, and then load them on.

[blangtang]

One-way fares of $30 from Dallas to destinations along the U.S. West Coast and $41 walk-up fares from Dallas to New York’s LaGuardia Airport were among those Virgin America cited from a recent review of airline data filed with the U.S. Transportation Department. There’s no indication when the battle might end, and “everyone is feeling the pain,” he said.
Loaded Flights

Southwest and American are reporting load factors, or the amount of seats sold, above 90 percent on some flights to Los Angeles and New York, with about half the tickets priced below $100, he said.

Fare wars are occurring in other markets, like Atlanta and Chicago. In Dallas, however, “I’ve never seen anything like it in my life,” Cush said. “Clearly, what we have is a market-share war going on in Dallas.”

Virgin America Chooses Empty Seats Over $41 Dallas-NYC Fares - Bloomberg Business