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Originally Posted by OneMore
That's correct; apologies if it wasn't clear.
As far as I know, the regulation in Europe is different. Should this happen there, the airline (Spirit) would provide new/equivalent tickets from a different airline, or compensate with a full reimbursment for the cost of the new tickets.
I was wondering if anyone experienced a similar case in the past.
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You're not in Europe, you're in the good old USA and that's just capitalism for ya. In Europe, if an airline oversells a flight and has to leave passengers behind, EU rules mandate a 300-Euro (pretty sure it's 300) payment to each displaced passenger. I've been through it and aside from the extra four-hour wait it was a nice way to deal with the issue. (Delta, Amsterdam to Seattle, 2010.) Oh, and they also comped my lunch at the airport and were very polite. All in all a fine way to make 300 Euros.
Spirit is a low-cost carrier and you don't get the same treatment you might with a legacy carrier, beatings by airport cops not withstanding.
Lastly, it is astonishing the level of entitlement that people seem to have when the slightest delay or disturbance of their air travel plans occurs. I know that putting 150-300 people into a metal tube and transporting them across the globe in mere hours seems like magic, but it isn't. When that process is delayed or cancelled the expectation of instant magical solutions never fails to amaze me.