Years ago, when my wife and I were still working and we didn't have the luxury of extra days to travel, we used to fly Spirit as they had a red-eye between LAX and Detroit. That was also back when you didn't have to pay for a soda or for putting bags in the overhead. It was still considered a no frills airline, but it was still at least closer to what you'd come to expect when flying. Besides, they were flying mostly MD-80's back then and since I used to work for McDonnell Douglas, it felt better, like I was supporting the company that was going to be paying me a pension some day, which they are, just that now the name on the 'check' is Boeing.

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