Spirit airline offer ultra cheap airfare, but $100 baggage handling

Seriously,they have the nerve to call it a baggage HANDLING fee when its your carry-on bag and you're the only person who's going to be carrying it on board? Would this practice not put your travel costs close to a regular full fare airline that you could choose a more honest alternative?

Wow that is really odd. I never heard of this. So what, you are supposed to travel with nothing? Just um, you? The price of luggage should remain in the price of the ticket and a carry on is not a luxury it is a necessity like the bathroom is. Are they gonna charge you for that next, per visit? I do not agree with the other bags being free as I feel it discourages people from taking too much luggage with them. I never understand this. It's like, three huge heavy suitcases? Really, do you want to crash? I feel the lighter the plane the less chance of crashing. If anyone disputes this they should have sat across from the absolutely huge man that sat across from me, and every time he moved or got up I felt the floor move. My knuckles were white. But this is crazy. Carry on's should remain free.

I know that Spirit Airline fly out of a place near Miami. I love the destinations on their route map: Central America, Northern South America and some of the Caribbean Islands. The airfares are meant to be low but the $100 charge for carry on baggage is silly. I don't like the way that budget airlines are making passengers pay for hold baggage. As if anyone could go on a two week vacation with hand luggage only. My need to take my disabled son's wheelchair and medical stuff for him. In my home country we have low cost airlines like Easy Jet and Ryan Air. Their charges are similar to that and are getting silly too. I usually fly on good quality planes and rarely on low cost carriers. The "low cost" is not low by the time all the extras are added like baggage and check in.

I never heard of that airline company. That is their own marketing strategy and they make it that way to attract more passengers. Personally I would consider my safety first over any kind promo when it comes to traveling by air.

That is why I hardly ever buy tickets from those cheap airlines...because everything you do or need they charge you extra ...and sometimes they charge you ridiculous among...for example I even had to pay for "WATER" during the flight....I mean water!!! come on........and the worst case is if they happened to cancel the flight..there is nothing you can do about it.......trust me...I have been into those kind of situations before...and there was nothing I could do but to purchase another ticket from other more reputable and of course a bit more expansive airline..