Spirit Airlines agreed to pay $8.25 million to settle a class-action lawsuit over its bag fees, attorneys for the plaintiffs disclosed Wednesday.
A group of first-time Spirit flyers who booked their trips through third-party travel sites between 2011-17 sued the airline in 2017, claiming that it did not disclose its bag fees and other extra fees appropriately.
The flyers said the budget airline’s surprise carry-on bag fees were intentionally hidden in an effort to gain profit.
Everyone has followed airlines into the junk fees market.
You charged 1.99, 2.99 or whatever for random shit all the time. So much so that you probably don’t even know about it sometimes.
“They should disclose all their fees!”
fees get broken out into line items
“Why are there so many fees!”
Like I get what people are saying, but a lot of “fees” are just regular costs of doing business. It’s really only for stupid stuff like a “$5 print your ticket at home ‘convenience’ fee” that are bullshit. It shouldn’t be more expensive to use less infrastructure.