Frontier & Spirit airlines have announced that they intend merge with Frontier equity holders owning roughly 51.5% of the combined company and Spirit owning the remaining 48.5%. It’s unclear if both of the airlines will continue to operate under individual names or not.
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According to Frontier Elite Status will not be impacted and you will still receive the same benefits. Also those matched only retain status until 12/31/22 so maybe 5 months of the merger with Spirit which isn’t much time. I’d like to get Elite status on spirit free bags and seat selection with Elite 100k.
Frontier keeps setting up flights to my airport then dropping them 2 months later. Spirit won’t come here at all. Not sure if this will make things better or worse.
this is probably bad news. and just went i paid for the stupid frontier status match…
status on both. also 49 dollars lol
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Hope to see reciprocal elite status ASAP – I got Frontier 100k through status match and it definitely made flying them no worse than ‘economy plus’ on a legacy carrier. Not sure if the same is true for Spirit but I’m optimistic Frontier will be in control post-merger so hope there aren’t too many changes..
Who did you have before to get matched to Frontier 100K?
Frontier offered paid matches to their elite tiers, using even midgrade statuses with hotels or other airlines. Some (if not all?) of those matched to 50k (which you could get with something like Choice Privileges Platinum) were then targeted for buy-ups to 100k subsequently, both at the end of the status match and via email later.
https://www.doctorofcredit.com/frontier-status-match-get-matched-from-30-loyalty-porgrams-49-fee/
…or the OP had full status with another carrier. Either way!
Just to add to what
DWhite said, the easiest was using Wyndham Diamond status (which you get automatically by having the Earner business card) but they quickly removed that and all other hotel programs as an option for 100k.
All americans are in cattle and greyhound class.
Not a fan of mergers like this because it takes one competitor out of an industry that is really hard to just suddenly get into (see: T-Mobile merging with Sprint). Maybe this creates some better loyalty program worth churning but given the budget model these two are built on I highly doubt it.
Reminds me of when Air Tran merged with Southwest. That was 10 years ago and my local airport that had good Air Tran flights still has not replaced those routes after Southwest pulled them out.
I knew paying for Frontier elite status would come in handy – NOT!
Who knows, could be Spirit Gold
I wanted to know your thoughts if this Merger is good for consumer prices/routes or will hurt it?
Def bad. If you look at how prices work, it’s all about route competition. Any route with both spirit and frontier flying in brings down prices from Delta/United/American. Dtw-mia a great example of this as Spirit entered this market.
The new Frontpirit airline would just need to underprice the cheapest big 3.
As much as I want to shit on Spirit – where they are the equivalent of animals with the smallest amount of distance between seats, etc…
I have heard that European airlines (e.g. Ryan air) are very similar models where EVERYTHING incurs a fee – and they run off the similar “If you can travel with just a backpack then GREAT!”. They also nickel and dime everywhere – for instance last I recall they also charge you like… a $25 fee to print your boarding pass. For fucks sake.. It makes for some fun and ecstatic customers at the check-in booths lol. I’ve seen some of it myself.
I’ll stick with Southwest, that doesn’t discriminate against people with families. Not everyone is a single-backpack traveler. I was there once upon a time where I could easily travel with just a small bag – not anymore though. At least not with family present.
If you’re not smart enough to check in on mobile, that’s on the user. As for the family thing, that sounds like a you problem.
Thats always easy to say coming from people who travel often like the majority of people here including myself. Some people travel once every 5 years. Also, not everyone carries a smartphone. I’m not defending them, just saying that charging a fee for printing a piece of paper isn’t exactly a way to make best-friends and repeat customers. It’s not a smart business decision.
And it’s not a “you problem” it’s an everyone with a family problem. Again, if you’re single or are able to travel with a wife that packs lightly, good for you. Go enjoy your spirit airlines, it’s clearly a crowd for you.
It’s not a hidden fee. They tell you upfront. Be Prepared. Also Ryanair isn’t so bad. And if you travel with the family only once every five years, go “big” and give them a *slightly* better flying experience.
I didn’t call it a hidden fee. You did.
Regardless, they thrive off people that don’t read all the T&C – which is very common among consumers.
I personally like to print a boarding pass just in case. Traveling is stressful, so I print boarding passes and everything else just as a backup. I’d be mad if they charged $25 to print a boarding pass. Most of the time, I don’t even use the paper copy. I just like having it as a fail safe
The cost is for them to print it for you at the airport. You can print it yourself for free.
How exactly do they discriminate against families? I’ve never flown spirit or frontier. I flew Allegiant once but got drunk and thus it was quite an enjoyable flight.
Check in agents cost money. Kiosks cost money.
Flying on Spirit et al is often a BETTERr deal with a family than for a solo traveller if you’re bringing a bag. I once travelled as a family of 4 during peak season, where each ticket on the Big Four carriers would have been $400 per ticket. We instead paid $125 for each ticket and $30-35 to check a bag each way—which we shared between the four of us. A solo traveller would have had less of a savings.
I stopped flying because of family discrimination. I have a family of three, and airlines want to charge me TRIPLE what it costs when I fly alone. Currently looking for a lawyer to file a class action.
Hope that’s a joke because families aren’t a protected class…
yes they are joking.
Its clearly a joke.
They charge my family of four QUADRUPLE!!! Let me know your attorney so I can join your class action & put this madness to a stop!
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Who prints there boarding pass and why? Seriously asking.
I have to go to the check-in gate in order to do a baby-on-lap ticket. Not something I can do online or in an app, so I just print all the boarding passes since were there.
Ryanair’s one of the most successful Airlines in Europe. Just to check on YouTube. You have no idea about smart business decisions.
That’s a very cool story, bro. That’s also entirely irrelevant to the original point. So…. Congrats? Also, you’re wrong. Ryanair isn’t even in the Top 10 globally as far as revenue. So, no.
I’ve had the mobile QR code fail to scan and had to go back to a kiosk and get a printout. Happened at least twice.