Incompetent Spirit Airlines Cancels Athletes’ Flight Home From College Visit, Books Them New Return Flight For 10 Days Later

Dent7 years ago

There’s three things I hate in this world: reptiles, condoms, and dealing with dipshit airlines. Traveling by plane has to be the least convenient “convenient” thing out there. “Well at least it takes way less time than driving,” says the genius who just learned how to read a clock. And said genius would be correct… most of the time.

However, it seems that all it takes nowadays is about half of a snowflake falling from the sky and you’re looking at a six hour delay. Throw in another hour or so to de-ice the wings once you’ve finally boarded and not so quick after all, is it? And that’s if your flight ever even happens. They could just flat-out cancel your shit and have the kind soul at the desk politely ask you to try again tomorrow.

The latter is the scenario that a couple of high school kids from Florida found themselves in recently, with one glaring exception. These kids took Spirit Airlines, and they had to find out the hard way that budget operations like Spirit don’t give a fuck when you get home.

From WPEC:

From his Port St. Lucie office, Efron facetimed his son who is more than 1,000 thousand miles away in Akron, Ohio.

“My son Braedon and his friend Ty’reik flew up to Ohio to look at a school for college,” Efron.

The Fort Pierce Central High School seniors visited Marietta College in hopes of receiving a football scholarship.

The two-day trip was scheduled to end Tuesday night. But as the latest nor’easter moved through Spirit Airlines canceled their flight.

The next available flight from Akron was March 30th. Ten days later.

It’s a valuable lesson to learn. While basement-level low fares are nice on your pocketbook, they are never worth it because the rest of it all is a total disaster. Oh, you travel with bags? There’s a fee for that. You didn’t want to be practicing some new-age yoga pose with your knees firmly planted in your chest for the next three hours? Laughable. And probably their biggest offense: you thought you were going to to get another flight out tomorrow because we cancelled the one today? NOT GONNA HAPPEN, bitch boy.

Don’t worry, though. Turns out these guys were able to get a refund and find other, more “convenient” accommodations to get them back home to Florida. Thank God too, because 10 days in Ohio is brutal no matter the circumstance.

And as for Spirit’s position on the matter? Let me paraphrase it in a few short words: sorry not sorry..

[via WPEC]

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