I dont write reviews. but this one needed to be written. first time for everything.
I usually fly Alaska, I should have continued. But the price difference on the flight home was half, so I bought into Frontiers budget friendly front. Should never have chomped on that baited hook. I expected them to charge for every little bit of extra breathing air, and they do. I could make do without most of it, but on this one I needed the baggage (traveling for a wedding, we needed the extra clothes). I ended up buying their premium luggage package, so we could have both checked luggage, and carry ons in addition to the allowed personal item. I didn't expect the carry ons to be so expensive. Its a bummer, but the price was still a little less than Alaska, so i thought it was still a better option by a little. Boy was I wrong. First, about a week before we left for the trip, they canceled the second leg of our flight home (CUN-DEN-SEA), and offered no replacement to it. I had to fight for 2 hours on the phone to get a replacement flight home, they acted like leaving us stranded halfway home was an acceptable solution. Accepting a 3 day delay and an overnight layover as a replacement flight to get home, they then lost our checked luggage . . . ON BOTH LEGS. Luckily we had a long enough layover, and the Denver airport had a Frontier counter (that was actually STAFFED, unlike their counter at sea-tac) and we were able to find it before our second leg, so at least we know it made it stateside. Upon arriving at SeaTac, and realizing the bag got lost AGAIN, we then spent 2 hours trying to contact anyone at SeaTac with Frontier, eventually giving up. Hours of internet links and phone trees finally showed us our only option was an online form. Filled it out and waited. Over a week later, they finally contacted us back, saying they had to wait 3 weeks before they could do anything. 4 weeks after we got back, after hours on hold on multiple occasions, they finally found our bag and we had our bag on our way to us from Georgia via FedEx. Unfortunately, they gave the wrong address to FedEx (I confirmed I gave them the correct one) and it took a couple extra weeks to get to us. After almost 2 months since our trip, it finally showed up today! YAY!! Except. . . there's stuff missing from the bag! No TSA inspection notice, so its unlikely it was our ever vigilant airport security. I just got off a 2 hour phone escapade with Frontier, the result of which is I need to file a new claim and go through the whole process again to hopefully ( fingers crossed, pray hard ) get reimbursed for the items taken out of our bag during this 2 month adventure. The adventure continues...
I cant believe I paid half the fare again for this ridiculous level of competency.
I will neeeveer fly with them again. And I recommend anyone to avoid them as well. Its a trap, the discount is not worth it. read more