If you’re flying Frontier or spirit, book your tickets at the ticketing counter well in advance on your travel plans and you’ll be surprised on how much more cheaper the fairs are.
My personal experience, saw a flight from DEN to SFO for $75, booked it for $27 at the ticketing counter. MKE to DEN was $74 on Priceline but got it for $56 at the counter.
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So, I’m supposed to go all the way to the airport (toll roads or commuter line ticket), probably three hours of my time, stand in line for 45 minutes, and save $15 on a ticket on the worst, most unreliable airline possible?
And was parking at the airport $20?
Ticket counter price is exactly the same as buying on their direct website. Unless you’re taking their employee behind said counter for a blowjob, then all bets are off.
I’ll pay more to not fly Spirit or Frontier
How did you know to do this? You went all the way to the airport just to try?
I knew this for Spirit. You can buy the ticket at one of their kiosks. The assumption is you would do this when there’s more than one of you traveling as the savings multiply. Therefore drag one of your travel companions with you to drive the car while you save them some money too.
It’s 2025, cell phone service tends to be decent at airports or it would be a lower circle of hell.
The reason Spirit and Frontier do this is because they have to pay taxes, I’m assuming on both ends, on the base fare, but they get to skip paying the local government and airport authority on “fees”. Now what is a “fee”, something optional that one has the option to not pay, hence the reason it’s not charged at the kiosk.
Hell, now that I think about it, it’s probably also the reason Ticketmaster does the same thing with all their additional fees.
There were videos and web pages that explained this, so I take no credit.
Allegiant and Breeze also offer in-person discounting. BUT! Check their websites because it’s usually in a specific window of time.
At my airport (AVL), it’s Wednesdays for 2 hours, and you may be waiting in the check-in line.
Better way would be plan ahead and buy ahead a month or two before the trip? I am not from USA and in addition to flight, there is also “first class” option for bus and train, so not used to doing flight frequently and at last minute.
And some bookings have cancellation (by passenger and/or airline) and delay/date change coverage.
I mean whatever floats your boat. In no scenario am I going to take the time to drive to the airport and deal with all that to save less than $300 across two tickets. Especially with an airline that I have been left stranded by before.
At those costs, if that is a significant enough savings for you to go through all that hassle, perhaps other things should be taking priority to traveling.
LPT: Don’t fly Frontier or Spirit.