Flight Attendant- Major Foul-Up (Not AA)
I have been flying for nearly 50 years and thought that I had seen just about every reason for a flight delay but I was wrong.
In any event, I was flying last Friday morning from MCO to ACY on Spirit.
Just before boarding there was much activity on the plane.
It seems that a flight attendant opened a rear exit door ( for catering or whatever) while the door was still "armed". This resulted in the evacuation slide being deployed.
Without going into all of the details, a new slide had to be flown from New York and it took over 8 hours for the repairs to be made and the flight to take off.
I know that stuff happens and people make mistakes but I have never heard of this happening before.
By the way the Spirit agent kept saying that compensation would be determined based on the length of the delay. It was decided that 8 hours was worth $100 off a future flight.
Finally, the new Spirit policy of charging for beverages was enforced, which went over very well.
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Tranferred to Spirit Airlines forum
Last edited by Indianhead; Jul 11, 2007 at 5:16 pm