When and How to Travel on Spirit (or Other Budget Airlines)
My husband and I were dating long distance for ~2 years and then we planned our wedding back in Houston while living in Detroit. There's no way I would have been able to afford traveling back and forth across the country every month, or even every other month, without saving money by flying on Spirit. After 3.5 years of frequent practice, I have flying on Spirit down to a science that translates to pretty much any US budget airline. We've all heard the horror stories along with the angry "I'll never fly *insert budget airline here* again!!" But, honestly, it's really not that bad if you follow a couple of ground rules - and I'm here to let you know what those rules are. First and foremost, you need to know that budget airlines make their money by charging for everything separately . That means you will only save money by minimizing your purchases over the base fares, and you have to understand when booking a budget airline makes sense in order to do tha...