They only pay this on airfare, and technically the $18.99 “passenger usage charge” is a fee. Why would Spirit do this? Because airlines don’t have to pay the 7.5% federal excise tax on fees. The only way to avoid that passenger usage charge is to ticket at the airport. That’s a fee that applies when booking online or by phone, though it’s not technically part of the base fare. The passenger usage charge is $18.99 each way. You have the cost of the flight itself, and then you have the “unintended consequences of DOT regulations” (which is purely to spite the DOT, and is totally hilarious), and the “passenger usage charge.” Meanwhile the “flight price” is sort of hilarious. Spirit is incredibly transparent, and they display the “flight price” and then the “government’s cut.” The government’s cut includes things like the security fee, passenger facility fee, segment fee, federal excise tax, etc. Take the “standard” fare of $44.19 (this trick doesn’t work on $9 Fare Club fares, unfortunately). Let’s pull up a flight from Tampa to Fort Lauderdale on as an example. And we’re not just talking a few dollars cheaper, but rather ~$19 per direction cheaper, which is often half of the airfare. Let me explain. The cheapest place to make a Spirit reservation is at the airport, rather than at or by phone.
#Federal register 2017 domestic segment fee rate for free
The airline even charges you $10 if you want an agent to print out your boarding pass at the airport (though you can print it out for free at a kiosk).īut they have one policy that on the surface seems the craziest of all. For example, I don’t know of any other airline that charges you more to carry-on a bag than to check it. The more I learn about Spirit, the more I find them to be endlessly fascinating. Earlier in the week I flew Spirit from Los Angeles to Seattle, and yesterday I shared my thoughts on the overall experience.
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