If there was a way to leave negative stars, I would. It feels dishonest even giving them one star.
I almost never leave bad reviews or go out of my way to rate a company, but here we are.
I had never heard of frontier....but they were offered up as a returning flight from Vegas at a decent price. The flight to Vegas was with American Airlines and was trouble free.
A few days before my return trip I started getting emails about paying for luggage.
I was surprised that I was giing to have to pay for my checked bag AND my carryon.
But not much I could do about it at the time because the deadline to change flights without ridiculous fees had passed. I begrudgingly paid for my carryon, but the app would not complete my purchase of checked bags. After numerous attempts at getting their website or app to work, while I'm on vacation I gave up and decided to address when I hit the terminal. Then I see on the website that if you ask assistance from the airline to check in, you would be charged a fee,....something I've never heard of.
When I got there, numerous passengers were mad, rearranging stuff in their suitcases. I wasn't sure what was going on.
Well,...evidently they have recently dropped the weight for checked baggage and passengers were throwing things away to get under their wait. After their check-in computer errored out and couldn't find my flight, I asked the Frontier agent for assistance. After even she had issues pulling it up, I was told that not only was I going to have to pay a higher rate because I couldn't get it paid for on the app, I was going to be charged 100 for it being overweight. The agent then rudely told me I could get rid of some of my stuff, find another way to send some of it home or pay the fee! I took my luggage (the same luggage that I took on American flight with no extra fees) and threw out tshirts and a few pairs of jeans to try to make weight. As I was weighing on the passenger testing scale, not the one the agent was using, I got to the correct weight. The Frontier employee next to me said, that that scale was unofficial and often is different from the one at the counter. I thought surely this couldn't be the case,....I was wrong! Sure enough,...it was higher at the counter. The agent was smug when she told me I was still over and would have to pay the additional 100 plus the higher than offered on the app rate. As I was running out of time, I paid the fees. The total luggage fees were DOUBLE the cost of the flight. It felt like a well designed swindle.
I don't have the space to even describe what I watched with the bins designed to see if your carryon or personal items were the correct size.
One passenger was removed from the flight because he was so mad about the whole situation saying he was being "overly aggressive". which didn't seem to be the case from our view.
At that point, even the fact that they offered no drinks or snacks unless you bought them didn't phase me. I was surprised that they even charged for water.
Needless to say,....I will never do business with them again. And,....I feel like I have a duty to warn anyone I can about their practices. When I got home I researched whether or not anyone else had the same issues only to find that it was recently revealed that the agents get bonuses for every up charge on bags, which helps explain the smugness of the agent telling me about the fees. read more