Showing posts with label Spirit airline. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spirit airline. Show all posts

Tuesday, December 23, 2025

Dem nuh ready!

 I have now added frontier airlines to my list of undesirable Airlines that I will never use again.

Number 1 6, (American), number 2 Air Europa, (Spanish) and now Frontier (American).

The first leg of my flight to Colorado for Christmas was, FLL to Cleveland and it was a small airplane with tiny seats that  could not be adjusted, back straight up. Luckily I had paid $20 extra to get a seat in the emergency exit row, so luckily it had leg room.

But can you believe we couldn't even get a cup of water unless we bought it! 

That flight was over 2 hours long.

Denver airport has a kind of magical look to it.


Loved the sunset coming into Denver.

The connection in Cleveland was smooth and this time it was on to a large Airbus for the next flight which was scheduled to take more than 3 hours.

The seats on the aircraft were bigger and softer but like on the smaller plane, they were non-adjustable.  

I again paid extra for better leg room at an exit row.

On a three hour flight, not even a drink of coffee or a soda unless you bought it. I requested water and got a cup and expected to be asked to pay and nearly died from shock when told there was no cost!😁. 

The flight was smooth however. That is after we had to de-ice after taxiing in Cleveland, for it snowed as we waited for permission to take off.

Because of de-icing we reached Denver about an hour late. (Not complaining.) But would you believe that when my daughter who was picking me up, checked Frontier's web page, it showed the plane had landed early although it was a whole hour late because of the the de-icing!!!!

Then there was the baggage madness!

We patiently waited and waited at carousel 7 where the board showed the 3 or 4 frontier flights that came in, would be unloaded.

Then a lady touched me saying she recognized me from her flight and she had gotten her luggage at carousel 8!

We headed there and that's where my bag came out.

That capped it for me. No more Frontier.

No sah, Dem nuh ready.


Tuesday, May 13, 2025

Almost there

 I am in Dubai waiting on an Emirates flight to Sri Lanka.

That county was not on my bucket list, but when I got a message from my good friend Damith on Christmas day 2024, telling me that he and wife Sharlene were back there and I should come and spend time with them. Who could turn down such an exceptional offer?

Not me, especially since I am crazy about elephants and curious about Buddhism. Hope they don't get tired of me before my 3 weeks are up.😁

Naturally, Dubai duty free shops are fabulous and ridiculously expensive!

So here I am in Dubai airport in transit area, killing time as I have a 5 hour layover after coming off a 13 hour flight from Toronto on Air Canada a few minutes ago.

If I have ever flown on Air Canada before it must have been many decades ago. I don't recall. But this was an excellent long haul service. Especially since I just had the experience of flying from Venice for 8 hours on that dump, Air Europa last month.

Boy I can't believe that airline which was established in 1986, could still be  flying, as their service is so terrible. It's worse than Spirit and I always thought no airline could compare.

Not even water could you get to drink on that dump outside of mealtime! 

Anyway forget them. 

I left Fort Lauderdale in a thunder storm but was happy to do so, as there was lots of news yesterday about the poor, dangerous conditions at Trump's US airports, where not even radars are functioning properly at some.

The leg to Toronto was fairly bumpy to the point where I even had to stop reading, as my hands where jumping up all over the place.

But Toronto to Dubai was a dream. 

Great food, nuff wine, lots of leg room, smooth conditions most of the way and efficient staff.

I love Emirates and am using it to Colombo so will see if they can outdo Air Canada.

Big up the airline.

Sri Lanka here I come. Hope the mangoes are riping there now too.😋