Travel crisis review

posted by Jeff | Friday, April 3, 2009, 9:49 AM | comments: 9

Wow, so things got ugly late in the day yesterday.

Diana's Toledo-based relatives, two aunts and two cousins, got stranded in Detroit (the shittiest place in the world to get stranded, if you ask me), when Spirit (who the fuck is Spirit?) cancelled their flight to Ft. Myers. No alternatives, just a big middle finger to the 150 people on that flight. The aunts, infrequent travelers and not accustomed to airport drama, figured that their only option was to get refund and drive down. The next flight Spirit could put them on was in five days. Are you fucking kidding? Planes in Detroit don't go to other cities?

Diana's dad called them and explained that you have to be a dick, and eventually they got them on Amtrak to Chicago, and this afternoon they'll depart O'Hare. The one cousin has bailed because completely.

Meanwhile, Gonch and his wife are having a kid-watching melt down, and are busting ass to fix that.

Seriously... we don't need this kind of drama.


Comments

Joe

April 3, 2009, 2:40 PM #

After Spirit denied us passage because they didn't list that we had to be at the airport an hour before the flight (it was stated as a suggestion), I vowed never to fly them again.

Rob

April 3, 2009, 2:57 PM #

So... I'm flying to Hawaii in May. Is Northwestern a good airline? Because that would suck balls. One of my two stops is in DTW and the other is LAX. I've never been through Detroit's airport before.

Rob

April 3, 2009, 2:58 PM #

I should clarify that it would suck balls to get stranded somewhere.

Jeff

April 3, 2009, 4:39 PM #

Flying NWA through Detroit is a pretty safe bet because you can get pretty much anywhere, even through a layover.

Jeffy

April 3, 2009, 5:14 PM #

Thanks for the heads-up on this. My parents have a flight on Spirit to Ft. Myers from Detroit @ 5:45 or so. They are heading to their condo for Spring Break. They're double checking to make sure their flight wasn't cancelled. Thanks again.

tigellinus

April 3, 2009, 5:16 PM #

As a frequent traveler, Detroit's newly renovated airport is one of the nicest in the US, IMO.

Still, that does suck about Spirit! I hope things work out with Gonch, too!!

Jacob

April 3, 2009, 8:02 PM #

Hang in there... it will all work itself out...

john

April 3, 2009, 8:28 PM #

Interesting article on Spirit Airlines last week in the nytimes

"Don't Come Crying to This Airlines"
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/business/29spirit.html?scp=1&sq=SPirit%20airlines&st=cse

CPLady

April 4, 2009, 1:16 AM #

Spirit is a budget airline and sucks big time. DTW is a Northwest hub, so anyone flying them through DTW has a safe bet.

And yeah...the old north terminal and the 1950's south terminal suck. The new terminal is so much nicer. I'd rather be laid over there than in some out terminal in St. Louis like I was on a my personal trip from hell. No food, bare floors and walls...we were there for 3 hours.


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