March 21, 2018 5 outrageous Spirit Airlines fees Customer service? Sorry, there’s a fee for that. Spirit Airlines recently made the quiet announcement that it will no longer offer its fliers a toll-free customer help number. Instead, the airline is switching to the not-free 801 area code. This tacks on yet another charge to the airline’s already outrageous fee list. According to a 2013 report by the marketing firm IdeaWorks, Sprit only came in one behind JetBlue for being the airline to make the most revenue from fees – and that was out of a sample of 50 carriers. We’ve rounded up some of the craziest fees on Spirit’s long list of charges. Here are some of the more ridiculous ones:
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