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27 seats overboooked
Posted on 2/10/22 at 7:56 pm
Posted on 2/10/22 at 7:56 pm
So we all know airlines oversell the planes, whatever. I've gotten some nice flight vouchers over the years giving up my seat.
My wife and one of my kids are flying tonight MSY-MCO on everyone's favorite yellow airline, Spirit, along with some other people we know.
Earlier during the day my wife started getting texts / e-mails asking if she would volunteer to give up seat. She is not.
So they get to the airport, get to the gate, and a notification pops up... 45 min delay. She checks inbound flight. It's on time.
Then Spirit annnounces... they are 27 seats oversold.
I can never ever remember hearing of a flight I was on that was more than say 7-8 seats oversold. 27??? Looks like the plane has about 180 seats.
Is it normal for a flight to have that many oversold seats?
My wife and one of my kids are flying tonight MSY-MCO on everyone's favorite yellow airline, Spirit, along with some other people we know.
Earlier during the day my wife started getting texts / e-mails asking if she would volunteer to give up seat. She is not.
So they get to the airport, get to the gate, and a notification pops up... 45 min delay. She checks inbound flight. It's on time.
Then Spirit annnounces... they are 27 seats oversold.
I can never ever remember hearing of a flight I was on that was more than say 7-8 seats oversold. 27??? Looks like the plane has about 180 seats.
Is it normal for a flight to have that many oversold seats?
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Posted on 2/10/22 at 8:28 pm to LSUFanHouston
Dude. Families don’t let their families fly shite airlines. This is on you.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 8:30 pm to LSUFanHouston
I'm with the other commenter - why the frick would you let your wife and child fly Spirit Airlines?
Posted on 2/10/22 at 8:32 pm to LSUFanHouston
You get what you pay for.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 8:41 pm to LSUFanHouston
That is way more oversold than anything I'd expect. They have to ask for volunteers too, some people probably made a lot of $$$. I'd take the money, get a one way rental and drive if it's above $600.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 9:26 pm to jfw3535
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I'm with the other commenter - why the frick would you let your wife and child fly Spirit Airlines?
1) Spirit isn't THAT bad
2) Because they wanted to fly with their friends... who were all flying sprit. There's over a dozen flying together.
3) The only other direct flights there tonight were stupid expensive.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 9:31 pm to CuseTiger
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That is way more oversold than anything I'd expect. They have to ask for volunteers too, some people probably made a lot of $$$. I'd take the money, get a one way rental and drive if it's above $600.
I've actually seen worse with Spirit but that was a few years back when they were even more of a garbage airline than they are now.
Posted on 2/10/22 at 10:49 pm to LSUFanHouston
If I can only afford to fly Spirit, Frontier or Allegiant then I can't afford to fly.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 8:06 am to H2O Tiger
I fly spirit regularly. Normally better times and never had them over booked. Sounds like a plane substitution with different number of seats.
Posted on 2/11/22 at 10:41 am to Matt225
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I fly spirit regularly.
I am truly sorry
Posted on 2/11/22 at 4:49 pm to LSUFanHouston
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I can never ever remember hearing of a flight I was on that was more than say 7-8 seats oversold. 27??? Looks like the plane has about 180 seats.
It was probably originally scheduled with a larger aircraft, like a 321, then last minute got downgraded to a 320 for operational needs to be oversold like that.
Posted on 2/12/22 at 2:19 am to H2O Tiger
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I am truly sorry
You're behind the times. Spirit has become a quality airline, with reliability as good as the "Big 4." After the mass cancellations this past Christmas season with Delta and AA, it's ridiculous to throw shade at Spirit.
It looks like Spirit normally has two nonstops to MCO on Thursday evenings, with one flight at 6:20, and then a later one (which is the one I assume your family was on) at 8:40. That later flight is a A320, so if you looked and saw that it was a flight with about 180 seats, then there wasn't a plane substitution, as the A320 seats 182 in Spirit's configuration.
MSY is a focus city for Spirit, so a lot of people connect there. What I would guess happened is that a lot of people were supposed to be connecting to MCO on the earlier flight, but due to weather, a mechanical issue, or something else, they arrived in MSY too late for the earlier flight, so the airline had to put them on yours.
Posted on 2/12/22 at 4:45 am to GOP_Tiger
Nothing wrong with discount airlines
This post was edited on 2/12/22 at 6:14 am
Posted on 2/13/22 at 9:07 am to Tigertown in ATL
This happened to me on a United flight. Not enough people would budge on the flight credit offers so they kept upping it. Ended up getting a $3k voucher when all was said and done. So many people lined up for the voucher, they ended up giving some people up to $500 to get back on the original plane.
Posted on 2/13/22 at 11:18 pm to LSUFanHouston
I travel alot and spend willingly. I live in DFW so I fly American most, I fly Delta second most bc I have their AmEx card. SW always an option too bc of Love Field. That being said, I absolutely have no issue flying Spirit. Often I use them when I make last min plans and I dont have to pay a ton for deciding to fly out week of. Still, no idea why ppl would critique OP or bash him for his family flying Spirit, there really is no big dropoff. What I notice is the class of passenger is lower but the planes were decent, half the time they were newer than legacy airlines, and staff was nicer. Just watch a movie and mind your own business and it is fine. Btw, wifi was 3 dollars for entire flight. Last time, I did find one attendant to be a real Karen and she ranted abt masks on the announcements like 5 times, some ppl took her picture and posted it on social media bc she was a real nut, I wanted to tell her to chill out. That really has been my only "Spirit" moment, they get an undue bad rap.
Posted on 2/14/22 at 7:01 am to nola tiger lsu
Flew Spirit for the first time this summer from ATL-LAS.
My only real complaint with them is that the seat was uncomfortable. Narrower than the legacy airlines and far thinner padding. Other than that, the flight each way was fine.
My only real complaint with them is that the seat was uncomfortable. Narrower than the legacy airlines and far thinner padding. Other than that, the flight each way was fine.
Posted on 2/14/22 at 9:25 am to LSUFanHouston
I read an article not too long ago on overbooking.
Isn't there a new rule whereby the airlines are now forced to keep upping their offers until they have enough people "volunteer" to give up their seats?
I seem to recall reading something along those lines.
Isn't there a new rule whereby the airlines are now forced to keep upping their offers until they have enough people "volunteer" to give up their seats?
I seem to recall reading something along those lines.
This post was edited on 2/14/22 at 9:27 am
Posted on 2/14/22 at 10:11 am to GOP_Tiger
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You're behind the times. Spirit has become a quality airline, with reliability as good as the "Big 4." After the mass cancellations this past Christmas season with Delta and AA, it's ridiculous to throw shade at Spirit.
Spirit had a meltdown so bad in August that it went 4 days without operationg more than 50% of its flights. Also, since they typically fly routes 1-2x per day if a flight gets cancelled you're stranded unlike on a mainline carrier where they can route you through different hubs or accommodate you on another flight.
Spirit Starts Climbing its way out of the Doom Spiral - CrankyFlier
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