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The Planes and Fees of Spirit Airlines Are Back in Business

June 21, 2010 at 9:08 AM | by | Comments (0)

At this point, things should be pretty much back to normal at Spirit Airlines. Last week pilots hit the picket line, and passengers were forced to hit those oh-so-comfortable terminal seats with no place to go. The airline slowly returned to normal by adding around 20 flights on Thursday, and by this week the prereclined seats should be back in business. After all, it takes a few days to get the planes back to where they need to be.

We don’t know how much cash the pilots are getting now, but hopefully they won a bit of a boost with their strike. They walked off the job because they didn’t think their salaries were in line with other low cost carriers in the country.

Spirit feels badly about the strike, so they are offering up something free to all potential passengers. You can sign up right here to get 5,000 free spirit bonus miles, and it also looks like they’re offering a $35 coupon off roundtrip travel. It’s better than nothing, but we know that coupons usually don’t go too far on the airline with all of their mandatory fees and charges.

Maybe if we’re lucky the airline will get their beyond-creative marketing team into think up something clever to get them through all this bad press related to the strike.

Related Stories:
· Spirit Resumes Flights, but 'Normal' Operations May be a Few Days Away [USA Today]
· Spirit Airlines Resumes Partial Schedule Thursday [AP, via Google]
· Airline News coverage [Jaunted]

[Photo: mac_filko]

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