What Happens When Spirit Changes Your Flight Will Surprise You
Whether you make your reservation online or at the airport, if Spirit changes the flight they will send you an E-mail.
This is what that E-mail says:
“One or more of your flights have changed due to a schedule adjustment. Please review your new itinerary below.â€
When this happened in September, our flight was changed by only 15 minutes. So no biggie.
This latest change is also relatively minor, our flight has been moved up by 40 minutes. Which is ultimately better for us; but what options does Spirit give me? Do I have to accept these changes?
And important note in the E-mail: “You will not be able to check in for your flight until you review changes.â€
So you have to actively accept the changes to be able to check in to your flight.
What if you don’t like the changes? Does Spirit charge you to change to a different flight date or time?
Spirit states: “If you wish to cancel or modify your reservation, you will not be charged a change fee or fare difference if:
You book the same departure and arrival airports
You flight is rebooked within selected dates (choose ‘Change reservation’ to view dates with the same price)â€
I am okay with the changes, but I’m going to pretend I want to change my flight to see what flights I’m offered to change it to.
Our flight is currently on a Wednesday night. It was changed to leave and arrive 40 minutes earlier than before.
When I went to look at flight options to change our flight I was pleasantly surprised!
We had a two week window that we could change our flight to.
For most days there was at least two flight options, a few days had three, and many of those were non-stops. All the flights in that window were at no extra charge even on more popular (read: expensive) flying days.
When I realized this, I asked my husband if he got the same message for his flight since he’s flying home the weekend before us. I went in and looked, sure enough his flight was changed too.
He was flying home on a Saturday night because it was over $100 cheaper than flying home on Sunday, but now we had the option to change his flight home to Sunday night for no extra charge. Winning!
If you plan on changing your flight, make sure you’re 100% certain which flight you want to change it to. The next warning in the E-mail says “The change fee and any fare difference will be waived for the first modification that is made to the reservation. Any changes thereafter may be subject to applicable change fees and fare differences.â€
I am fairly certain I want to still fly home the day we planned, but since I now know I have this wide range of options I’m going to make sure that is the best day and time for us to fly home from our trip before I confirm the changes to our reservation.
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What a crock! No notice given no excuse given. Flight cancelled. Offered refund which I could only get if I had cancelled over 7 days ahead of time….Love that parity. No emotion or empathy for waking at 3 in the morning checking out of hotel, dropping off rental car only to find out I no longer have a flight. They say I can fly tomorrow or get a refund. Nice choice. Fml! Now have no transportation, no place to stay and they do not care. SERIOUSlY. They do not care. Stuck in airport with a diabetic 80 year old low on insulin and a two year old that does not understand. And they do not care. READ this folks. Now in land of pretend that you pay for…buy a ticket and they will pretend to find a plane , maybe, and will pretend they will get you to your destination. We could play this games for days and they feel no explanation needed.
This business needs to go bye bye on one of its cancelled blights
Live in Canada, drive to Detroit Airport for flight to Las Vegas. Standing in line for around 30 minutes, message board reads On-Time. Phone vibrates and message say flight canceled. Then I hear a small voice read out the flight is canceled without giving a reason. Direct to two different directions, one are for Re-booking for the next day and another area to refund. Stood in line to book flight for the next day because the hotel is paid for and show tickets purchased ahead of time. Only to hear the man behind was to fly out the previous day but was canceled til today only to be canceled again. So I changed my mind and got my refund of the flights because Spirit had people stranded in Vegas, Denver and Boston. Well my birthday trip was canceled and lost of hotel and show money.
No they don’t care, That why there is travel insurance.
They just changed my flight time to 40 minutes sooner, which will actually cause me some problems with my trip. So I called based on what I read in this article and Spirit said they would not offer any trip changes without a fee.
How did u actively accept the changes to the new flight time?
Did you ever figure this out? I am trying to figure this out now.
I’m 2 months away from a flight to Cabo and Spirit changed my flight arrangements 2x now. I went from 1 way flight home to a 10hr layover causing me to fly all night and arrive home the next morning. How they can mess with my plans with no accountability is answering. Never again!!
our flight is still 2 months away and they have changed it twice already. One time causing us to lose a whole day of vacation and a whole day at our resort, they are CRAZY and i will NEVER book spirit again the changes also caused is to have 11 houtrs of layovers going and 20 hours of layovers coming home, with ZERO apologies for these changes. I am SO nervous about this trip now. we adjusted our resort but i am sure they will change things AGAIN on us!
I did write this nine years ago, so a lot has changed since then. This woman has a more recent post on dealing with them; I hope it helps!
https://lauraclery.com/spirit-airlines-changed-my-flight/#:~:text=If%20your%20flight%20with%20Spirit,be%20entitled%20to%20a%20refund.&text=It's%20important%20to%20keep%20in,definitely%20explore%20your%20refund%20options.