aGameOfThrones
01-27-2012, 01:54 AM
This is not consumer-friendly or in your best interest. It's wrong and you shouldn't stand for it.
Starting January 24, 2012, fares are distorted.
Why?
Thanks to the U.S. Department of Transportation's latest fare rules, Spirit must now HIDE the government's taxes and fees in your fares.
If the government can hide taxes in your airfares, then they can carry out their hidden agenda and quietly increase their taxes. (Yes, such talks are already underway.)
And if they can do it to the airline industry, what's next?
As the transparency leader and most consumer-friendly airline, Spirit DOES NOT support this new USDOT mandate. We believe the better form of transparency is to break out costs so customers know exactly what they're buying.
What can you do to help stop this injustice?
Join us in keeping government taxes and fees low and transparent by contacting your elected officials.
http://keepmyfareslow.org/
Another Great Sale... Same Hidden Taxes!
As always, we have our famous ultra low fares on spirit.com, but the listed fares are now distorted because the U.S. Department of Transportation is forcing us to HIDE all of their taxes and fees in the fares you see, including our sale fare advertisements.
Taxes and fees can be different by destination, by country, based on whether you are flying into or out of an airport, and so on. You get the point – it makes it too difficult for us to provide the list of fares. In fact, by the time we could figure out how to calculate that, you'd be done with your vacation already.
So, instead of providing you our ultra low sale fares in a transparent format, we're going to have to just provide you with the routes and dates. We promise there are some great fares on those dates though – check them out!
Prior to this new regulation, we have NEVER sold a ticket without a customer knowing what their full price would be – we always showed the fare and the taxes and fees, but separately to ensure transparency. Now the government wants to combine those. You tell us - which do you think is more transparent? We think this lack of transparency that is being forced by our government is an outrage, and we encourage you to let your elected officials know that we should reduce regulation that burdens the American people.
http://marketing.spirit.com/traveldeals/air.php?s=831&mw=1
Starting January 24, 2012, fares are distorted.
Why?
Thanks to the U.S. Department of Transportation's latest fare rules, Spirit must now HIDE the government's taxes and fees in your fares.
If the government can hide taxes in your airfares, then they can carry out their hidden agenda and quietly increase their taxes. (Yes, such talks are already underway.)
And if they can do it to the airline industry, what's next?
As the transparency leader and most consumer-friendly airline, Spirit DOES NOT support this new USDOT mandate. We believe the better form of transparency is to break out costs so customers know exactly what they're buying.
What can you do to help stop this injustice?
Join us in keeping government taxes and fees low and transparent by contacting your elected officials.
http://keepmyfareslow.org/
Another Great Sale... Same Hidden Taxes!
As always, we have our famous ultra low fares on spirit.com, but the listed fares are now distorted because the U.S. Department of Transportation is forcing us to HIDE all of their taxes and fees in the fares you see, including our sale fare advertisements.
Taxes and fees can be different by destination, by country, based on whether you are flying into or out of an airport, and so on. You get the point – it makes it too difficult for us to provide the list of fares. In fact, by the time we could figure out how to calculate that, you'd be done with your vacation already.
So, instead of providing you our ultra low sale fares in a transparent format, we're going to have to just provide you with the routes and dates. We promise there are some great fares on those dates though – check them out!
Prior to this new regulation, we have NEVER sold a ticket without a customer knowing what their full price would be – we always showed the fare and the taxes and fees, but separately to ensure transparency. Now the government wants to combine those. You tell us - which do you think is more transparent? We think this lack of transparency that is being forced by our government is an outrage, and we encourage you to let your elected officials know that we should reduce regulation that burdens the American people.
http://marketing.spirit.com/traveldeals/air.php?s=831&mw=1