Yes, I cracked and bought tickets during the $50 off Spirit Airlines sale yesterday. I found round-trip tickets from DFW to Orlando for $68.18. Round-trip!!!!

The sad part of this tale is I couldn’t take complete advantage of that sale. While the days we were considering flying home from Orlando were on sale ($34.09 one-way per person), the day we wanted to fly out was not. So what did we do?

I was able to take advantage of $25 off per person even if I only purchased one-way tickets online. I still put the “50OFF” in the promotion code box and it deducted $25 off each ticket price. That came to $34.09 per person to fly home from Orlando in January. I bought the tickets home online last night, and planned to go to DFW today to purchase our tickets to Orlando.

I got the tickets today from DFW to Orlando for $85.10 per person. Honestly, it’s not a bad price, but it seemed like so much more when I got the other ones for $34.09 each. Our round-trip ticket price comes out to $119.19 per person. We’ll be checking one bag each way, with the $9 club membership price ($21 each way) that averages out the four tickets to $129.69 per person.

But Tiff, Southwest is having a sale right now! Did you even check them???

Funny you should ask, I did. Now, Southwest prices weren’t bad at all, they were definitely cheaper than I usually find them for, but how did they compare to Spirit Air’s sale?

For the flight out to Orlando, same day, non-stop, later than the Spirit flight, but nothing we wouldn’t do, was $134 per person. A difference of almost $49 per person. For someone flying by themselves who has to check a bag and isn’t a $9 fare club member, I wouldn’t blame them at all if they decided to fly the Southwest flight out to Orlando.

The bag price for Spirit to check only one bag would cost $32, making Southwest’s flight out only $17 more than Spirit’s. Since we’re flying with four people, $49 more per person is almost $200. I can check our bag for only $21 so we’re saving a substantial amount ($174.60) if the four of us fly on Spirit instead of Southwest.

I checked Southwest’s prices on the days we were looking at flying home. Their cheapest flights were all non-stops and their lowest prices varied between $123 per person and $133 per person. For all four of us to fly home on Spirit it cost us $157.36 and that’s including our checked bag. It’s about one-third of the cheapest price on Southwest.

Total cost of the flight if we flew on Southwest would have been $257 per person. Our Spirit tickets come to $129.69 per person including our bag fees. Just a little over half the entire cost Southwest would have cost us.
So yes, Spirit won again for our family. We’ll have time to visit family, take the kids to Disney, and hopefully complete the Disney World half-marathon (eek).

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