Spirit Airlines(USA) didn't allow or provide water; ANA(Japan) provided 2 full meals and 3 drink services.
Similar flight duration, opposite customer care policies.
The sapporo is blocking the soba noodle dish, which was rrrreal good with the provided soba noodle sauce.
Spirit made all passengers empty their water bottles before getting on the plane and if you wanted water during the 7 hour flight you were required to purchase it from them.
First airline I've ever used that prohibited water. Big thumbs down. Seems insane, tbh.
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What if you're diabetic or have some other medical condition? I can smell an easy lawsuit...
There was a lady who said she had some medical condition that needed water and they gave her a huge bottle for free, all of the attendants were openly complaining about the policy along with the passengers.
That is extremely discriminatory treatment.
Did the two flights cost the same?
Everyone seems to know that Spirit is shit customer service but it's super cheap so people put up with it.
I didn’t even know Spirit had 10-hour flights. That’s horrifying.
Indeed Spirit is well known as one of the worst, bargain-basement airlines. It’s the one that comes to mind as “the worst airline in the world.”
Jet Blue is the other one. I would never fly either unless I was absolutely forced to. I’d probably still try to take a train if it took a week.
God back in the aughts Jet Blue was the SHIT. Decent prices, tons of freebies, we always took JB if it was available. Now, yea id rather take southwest or frontier
Reminds me a bit of Virgin a decade ago. Reasonably priced and quite a remarkably nice experience!
Of course it doesn’t even exist any more. Ha
Add Iberian to the list. Not only did they lose my luggage, they also didn't give anyone water for 7 hours on the flight.
Almost identical actually, 454 for the ANA flight and 492 for the Spirit.
ANA is only one leg of this flight, and i flew a longer distance on spirit.
But for those two legs I'm comparing, and the distance flown for each relative to the entire flight, it's almost the exact same price.
I've flown spirit several times and have never had them ask me to empty my water bottle. I don't think this is their company policy.
Very odd
It must have been a new policy, I haven't experienced it with them before either and the flight attendants were complaining about it all three flights.
That was my experience flying China Southern to Jet Blue, minus forcing you to dump water. Even 2 hour hops get you a meal with most asian airlines, and its not terrible.
Yea, I'm so glad to be back in asia right now.
That should be illegal, humans need water to live and dehydration causes problems quickly, it's a health risk.
It's difficult for me to believe it is legal, it must somehow be illegal at least in some countries to deny water to passengers.
I don't think this was a week long trip
10 hours without water could be a health risk
Some people have medical needs that frequently require water.
People who need to take medications, have bladder issues, hypertension, electrolyte imbalances, migraines, toddlers and babies, and so many more.
You will not able to spot who does or doesn't because most medical conditions and disabilities are not visible.
ANA is wonderful.
I had a great flight, and being in narita again honestly made me want to charge my plans and stay in Japan.
Please tell me what route Spirit has that is 10 hours?
Thanks, it was last month and actually 7 hours from lima to florida, i must have remembered it longer.
This ANA flight was 9 hours, hawaii to tokyo.
That’s insane, America is going dystopic.
It was difficult to believe at first, but three flights with spirit made it real clear.
I can understand why Spirit asks passengers to empty their water bottles. It could be for safety reasons. But I don't understand why Spirit doesn't supply water. Are they craaazy?
Behold the American brainwashed into believing water can be a threat and that this is not anything besides an excuse to sell you 500ml of water bottled from public springs for $9
That is possible and very gracious of you. I can't imagine what threat spirit is seeing from water that no other airline is. Occam is pointing to profit without decency.
Not providing water does seem craaazy, especially on a 10-hour flight. They had to give free water to a woman seated behind me who had some medical condition and the flight assistants were all muttering to each other about how the water ban was crazy.
Hopefully dehydration doesn't stick as a policy.
Considering 'murica, it'll remain as a policy until someone sues
I am looking forward to being out in the world again.
Could you explain, in great detail, what sort of threat you believe water presents? If it were a threat, why did they provide it on the other side of security? Because you don't get to walk through security with liquids, so that's municipal water provided by the airport water/drink fountains or bottled water purchased at the airport for already extortionate prices that they're pouring out, not home brewed nitroglycerin.
I believe the reasoning is some clear liquids are volatile and/or flammable, but it's still rubbish.