Originally Posted by
rsteinmetz70112
They have on occasion done this before. When Bob Fornaro was in charge he put a lot of emphasis on operations and publicly stated they would buy tickets on other airlines when necessary. In this case I'm not sure other airlines have capacity to move all of their passengers. It will be a while until the dust settles.
"When necessary."
So subjective! Not to be pessimistic, but to Spirit's policy manual, "when necessary" might mean, "When we can't get you home within two weeks of your departure, and we'll only offer this on the fourteenth day."
This isn't so much questioning Spirit specifically, as much as the abilities of any and every ULCC. Idk if they should offer this if this if they can't (or aren't) really doing it. (Or maybe they actually did it a lot when Bob was around.)
Originally Posted by
MSPeconomist
If someone was scheduled to travel between July 29th and August 8th, but is still stuck on August 12th, it's pretty bad.
"When possible" allows a lot of wiggle room. Maybe they mean that only a Motel6 costing $6 is possible.
Haha yes, exactly.