Similar flight duration, opposite customer care policies.
The sapporo is blocking the soba noodle dish, which was rrrreal good with the provided soba noodle sauce.
Spirit made all passengers empty their water bottles before getting on the plane and if you wanted water during the 7 hour flight you were required to purchase it from them.
First airline I've ever used that prohibited water. Big thumbs down. Seems insane, tbh.
Did the two flights cost the same?
Everyone seems to know that Spirit is shit customer service but it's super cheap so people put up with it.
Almost identical actually, 454 for the ANA flight and 492 for the Spirit.
ANA is only one leg of this flight, and i flew a longer distance on spirit.
But for those two legs I'm comparing, and the distance flown for each relative to the entire flight, it's almost the exact same price.
I've had multiple airlines make me throw away all alcohol and look at me judgingly and say I can't get on a plane drunk (while I'm 100% sober, for the record). Then offer me unlimited alcohol on the flight (at a cost).
Sure, disallowing alcohol is fairly common. I had to down a bottle of grey goose in an hour once with a friend as a result of that policy(just had to).
Water prohibition is a new one for me, though.
My point being that alcohol wasn't disallowed, just the alcohol you didn't purchase from them.
That's definitely the essence of the problem with spirit airlines here.
750ml, iirc. We were young and dumb, excited to visit South Korea.
After the bottle, we were older and dumber.
They don't allow outside food or drink because they don't make money off movie ticket sales, so they need you to buy concessions instead.
That was my experience flying China Southern to Jet Blue, minus forcing you to dump water. Even 2 hour hops get you a meal with most asian airlines, and its not terrible.
I've flown spirit several times and have never had them ask me to empty my water bottle. I don't think this is their company policy.
Very odd
It must have been a new policy, I haven't experienced it with them before either and the flight attendants were complaining about it all three flights.
Thanks, it was last month and actually 7 hours from lima to florida, i must have remembered it longer.
This ANA flight was 9 hours, hawaii to tokyo.
Spirit is a low cost airline. The prices are usually lower unless you get a good deal, and but not only is the quality of service lower, but they WILL also milk you for every last cent.
If I can afford it, I will 9/10 cases go for a flag carrier airline, like Lufthansa. Usually, I can't afford it. But I also only fly to too expensive vacations (around once a year), unlike some of those people who have jobs that require them to move around sevetal times a month.
I usually get whatever is the cheapest since i like hanging out in airports and shorter flights anyway, but am always interested in the recent upgrades when i take a more expensive airline.
I fly a lot, so the opportunity does present itself occasionally.
I can understand why Spirit asks passengers to empty their water bottles. It could be for safety reasons. But I don't understand why Spirit doesn't supply water. Are they craaazy?
Behold the American brainwashed into believing water can be a threat and that this is not anything besides an excuse to sell you 500ml of water bottled from public springs for $9
Selling you 500ml bottles for $9 twice. Once after the nude scanner and once after boarding.
That is possible and very gracious of you. I can't imagine what threat spirit is seeing from water that no other airline is. Occam is pointing to profit without decency.
Not providing water does seem craaazy, especially on a 10-hour flight. They had to give free water to a woman seated behind me who had some medical condition and the flight assistants were all muttering to each other about how the water ban was crazy.
Hopefully dehydration doesn't stick as a policy.
I can't believe it's true. If it is it's the easiest policy to ignore, just shove your water bottle in your bag. They're not gonna search you before boarding. It would slow boarding to a crawl.
How did the flight attendants enforce it?
I have encountered flights in other countries where the airport security doesn’t require passengers to dump water while going through security. When flying to the US, they would inspect your bags on the jetbridge looking for fluids since security didn’t do it already. I’m guessing that was the scenario. It was also very easy to sneak water past as it was a manual check and not very thorough.
They literally opened up every single person's bag as we were boarding and checked all of the bottles. If you had any bottles with watter inside, they asked you to dump it out in front of them there and then you were allowed to get onto the walkway leading into the plan.
It was craaaazy.
That's a new low for US airlines. In my experience your water bottle has to be empty to get through airport security but you can fill it with one of these before you get on the plane. Airlines don't do their own security screenings. Never seen even a budget airline not provide free water either but Spirit has a reputation for being shitty
I don't mean the part you drink from with your mouth, it has a bottle filler at the top.
Ok, imagine everyone has a water bottle and have been drinking from it. Then they dump it and refill it with the machine, which is moist.
https://www.greenmatters.com/health-and-wellness/are-water-fountains-clean
Water fountains at the airport, they found, harbor more than 50,000 times the bacteria of a toilet seat. They also found that shopping malls contain the dirtiest water fountains overall, featuring over 30 million colony-forming units (CFUs) of the type of bacteria than can be disease-causing.
