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In recent searches on Google Flights, I took the trouble to eliminate United from the results to avoid ~30% 'savings'. Even prior to this incident, my opinion of United was extremely low (due to my prior horrifying experiences with them); I haven't flown this airline in 10+ years.

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I actually just booked a flight the other day for a fairly last minute vacation and round trip PDX to MCO was 244 on united, but almost 800 with Delta. It was tempting to fly United purely because of price, but since I have nice status with Delta I ate the cost. Only other airline that was as cheap as United was Spirit, and no way in hell am I flying them.

I took a red eye flight that boarded only about 45 minutes after the security checkpoint for the terminal reopened for the morning. I sat right next to the Spirit Airlines counter, where I watched dozens of people place their bags on the spirit airlines baggage pricing stand. I tallied up the extra fees and Spirit just got away with an extra $4,000 that morning.

One of the only times I could say that I was thankful for flying American.

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