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Bullsh*t from Spirit AIrlines
Go to spirit.com and you get a banner ad
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the U.S. Department of Transportation's latest fare rules, Spirit must now HIDE the government's taxes and fees in your fares. If the government can hide taxes in your airfares, then they can carry out their hidden agenda and quietly increase their taxes. (Yes, such talks are already underway.) And if they can do it to the airline industry, what's next? As the transparency leader and most consumer-friendly airline, Spirit DOES NOT support this new USDOT mandate. We believe the better form of transparency is to break out costs so customers know exactly what they're buying. What can you do to help stop this injustice? Join us in keeping government taxes and fees low and transparent by contacting your elected officials ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nothing prevents Spirit from showing the breakdown of the fare. They can no longer hide the total fare. -- Binyamin Dissen http://www.dissensoftware.com Should you use the mailblocks package and expect a response from me, you should preauthorize the dissensoftware.com domain. I very rarely bother responding to challenge/response systems, especially those from irresponsible companies. |
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Bullsh*t from Spirit AIrlines
Binyamin Dissen wrote:
Go to spirit.com and you get a banner ad ----------------------------------------------------------------- Thanks to the U.S. Department of Transportation's latest fare rules, Spirit must now HIDE the government's taxes and fees in your fares. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Nothing prevents Spirit from showing the breakdown of the fare. They can no longer hide the total fare. Yea, a co-worker of mine got the same message from Spirit via e-mail. It's a crock of **** for Spirit to complain about having to show the TOTAL ticket price up front (in their advertizing or at the initial selection of an itinerary) instead of showing the total only on the final screen. It's a crock of **** because they NEVER went out of their way IN THE PAST to SHOW THE CONSUMER what these taxes and fees were at any other point of contact with the consumer other than on the final PURCHASE NOW screen. So I can't see why they're claiming that the new rules amount to "hiding" these fees and taxes. They're just as "visible" as they were before - as in how their detailed listing still exists in the only place it has ever existed - on the final screen. And even then - they still don't show the breakout of the 7.5% federal excise tax from the base fare. Just for the hell of it, I was pricing a ticket from Detroit to Orlando (return). The base fare was $414, their fuel surcharge was $85, and what they claim as other gov't fees and taxes was $55 for a total of $555. The base fare of $414 seems to include the 7.5% federal excise tax - because this tax is not broken out in the $55 list. I went to Delta to look at the price for a similar flight and again they broke out the "base fare + tax" as a single line-item. The whole airline industry (or should I say - the customers) are being ****ed-over with all these gov't fees and taxes. And after paying all that - we get to lose our constitutional rights to privacy, liberty, due process and anonymity when we fly. |
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