Originally Posted by
Loose Cannon
However I think that the old Rule 240 ought to be codified into law and be made legally binding on ALL airlines including Southwest and Spirit.
Spirit's cancellation policies can result in some interesting unintended trips. One of my cousins and his girlfriend had $9 tickets on Spirit to go from DTW to florida for a weekend. When they got to the airport there were only a few other people on the flight and Spirit cancelled it (and tried to pretend it wasn't because they'd lose a ton of money on it) and tried to tell everybody "here's your $9, go away". My cousin's GF told them they couldn't do that, and that it had been hard for her to get the time off for the trip, and that the airline had to fly them *somewhere*, so what planes in the next few hours have seats?". They got a flight to LA and came and hung out at my place for a long weekend - it was nice to have the surprise visit.