I am writing to address a horrible experience we had at Logan Airport with Spirit Airlines and a Spirit manager named Mario for the 8/17 BOS to DFW 6:59 flight.
After multiple failed attempts to gain our boarding passes on the Spirit app, we arrived over an hour and half early for our flight.
An assistant manager unsuccessfully helped us at the Spirit kiosk. He then directed us to the check in line. There, we were greeted, asked for our flight info, and IDs. Unable to check us in at their computer, the Spirit employee tried multiple times to check us in on my phone app. With no success, he called down to our gate (38B) and spoke with the Spirit manager MARIO.
With 60 minutes left to board, Mario instructed the employee NOT give us our boarding pass. Confused, the employee asked an assistant manager to step in. The assistant manager made multiple phone calls to Mario, and told us that Mario said we could not board.
Confused, the assistant manager said he did not know why Mario said no. The assistant manager said we still had plenty of time!
We had an already cancelled flight from Tuesday, rebooked, already assigned seats from the phone customer agent who rebooked us on Tuesday, and no one understood what was going on!! The assistant manager somehow printed out passes and said RUN!
We went thru baggage check and RAN to our flight gate.
Upon arriving at the gate 38B at 6:40 pm, the 6:59 pm departure flight was nowhere to be seen on the runway.
6 minutes behind me another wife, husband, and infant were running to gate 38 B for the same flight. They had experienced the exact same situation we had!!!!
I asked the Spirit employee to call Mario. She did, said wait 15 minutes, walked away.
I waited 25 minutes! Walked over to gate 37, told that employee to call Mario.
Waited another 20 minutes. Told the gate employee to call him again
I stood at gate 37 and saw Mario COME OUT OF THE GATE 38 TUNNEL!!!!!
He had been there THE WHOLE TIME in the tunnel!
His words, "Why are you calling my name like you know me?" "why is my name in your mouth?" I was stunned at his response. I told him he made us miss our flight and I needed it handled now. Told him to wait right there till I got my family.
I walked to gate 38 to get my family. Walked back to 37 and Mario had left!
Waited 10 minutes, decided to go all the way back to the front, to the check in.
While waiting in the line, a Spirit Employee came to all of us and said a completely different flight had been cancelled. She asked "Did no one receive a notification?" Approximately 15+ people were then very upset about receiving no notifications of a different Spirit cancelled flight!
I saw Mario. He was helping another couple, who was very upset too, and tried to speak with me about our problem. I told him to help them and then us. He kept trying to address us in a loud manner and the couple he was originally helping butted in to make him finish with them as they were irritated for missing their flight!
Finally in speaking with Mario, he denied everything and called over the first employee who helped us. I then told Mario all the steps we went through, while the Spirit employee shook his head in agreement. This employee said, "Yes, I called and Mario said you could not board." I then told Mario to get the assistant Manager who helped us. He REFUSED!
A nice woman Spirit employee texted the Assistant Manager to come, because she had been a witness to us from the beginning, while also apologizing, saying this should've never happened, and was rebooking us.
The assistant manager comes and he also tells Mario, " I called and you said to not let them board and they had plenty of time too." This whole time NO ONE, other than Mario, knows why we were being denied! Mario became loud, rude, continued to say "why do you have tunnel vision for me? Why is my name in your mouth?" A manager said this!
I videoed as much as I can. You can hear me telling Mario he said no. You can hear the other employees saying they called, we had time, they don't know why.
In the video, the Spirit woman employee pulled us aside to explain the process to the new Saturday flight. She stated arrive an hour or two hours before! An employee saying that what we did today was fine to do Saturday, but yet didn't work today.
This is our SECOND missed flight due to Spirit. Work hours lost, kids missing school, stress.
Why did our flight leave the run way 20 minutes, or more, from original time? Why were we told no with over an hour from departure? Why could we not check in on the app, the kiosk, or at the front desk? Overbooked?!
I am posting here because Spirit refuses to take our comments seriously. I stayed in the customer service line for an hour to speak to a live agent who then transferred me to a manager. Manager said online only read more