Ridiculous: Spirit Now Charging $10 to Book Online!

[Matt Molnar]

Yup. Whereas most airlines might charge you extra for booking a flight over the phone or at ticket offices, Spirit has now come up with the most ludicrous fee in the business: the "web convenience fee." $5 per person, each way, $10 round trip.

Tickets can still be purchased at the airport without a fee, or you can save by booking through Orbitz, whose booking fee is only $5 per reservation.

[PhilDernerJr]

That's extremely backwards, and yes, pretty ridiculous.

[LGA777]

Watch the airport lines grow and then they will need more agents. Brilliant !

[Eddie.]

Spirit is screwed.

They enjoyed using their 319's without paying a dime for them, charging $9 fares. Now that Airbus wants them to start paying up, they're haveing trouble finding funds.

Pretty soon they'll be in line with Aloha, Silverjet, Maxjet etc.

[Lezam]

Remember the good old days when they had the broken down MD-80's?