[ThirdOfFive]

Originally Posted by Rainger99

I have flown it once. It was a nightmare. Flight canceled and I was rebooked the next day.

The article claims that after the bankruptcy, it tried to rebrand itself as a more premium airline.

Spirit Airlines files for second bankruptcy in a year as financial challenges persist

I've only flown Spirit once. Pretty uneventful though they charge for basically everything beyond the ticket.

My least-favored airline has to be Frontier. I've only flown them twice but both times it was a zoo at the gate. You get one small under-the-seat bag for free but it has to fit a box that is kept just in back of the boarding line, and it was a pretty small box. Ours was manned (personed?) by a ponderous woman with a face like a bull mastiff and apparently a disposition to match. Your bag had to fit precisely; nothing (including handle or straps) could protrude beyond the box dimensions. If it did, you were immediately sent to a small side desk where you had to pay $100 to check it (ordinary checked bags were only $50). There were a few rancorous exchanges with the mastiff and even more at the desk where several people had to fork over $100. My bag fit w/no problems. The rancorous exchanges did mean that we took off about a bit later than scheduled.

People walking by on the concourse could easily hear and see what was happening: my thought was that what was going on was the worse possible publicity for the airline.