We have scheduled a Spirit flight Boston to Ft Lauderdale in January the day before the cruise, should I be worried?
I think you should at least be very prepared with alternative plans. The biggest con with these low budget airlines is the don’t have any agreements with other airlines to rebook passengers whose flights have been canceled, as another poster already mentioned. If there are no other flights before your cruise leaves you are out of luck. I also don’t know that you are automatically guaranteed a seat on the next flight or if that’s dependent on availability; that’s probably something you should confirm as that would be critical information.
I would research other airlines that fly your route and see what the fares were for January historically so you will have an idea of what you might have to pay if your Spirit flight was canceled and your only option to make your cruise was to book a flight on another airline yourself. You might be better off to cancel your Spirit flight now, swallow the $ loss, and book on another airline now. Or, if you have trip insurance that would cover this type of situation, and you could accept missing your cruise, stick with your Spirit flight and have an alternate land vacation plan.
I’m such a worst case scenario type of person that for the 3 cruises I’ve gone on that required flying to the departure port, we’ve flown in 2 days before on major carriers so that we had time to drive to the port if necessary (live in Maine, cruising out of Canaveral or Miami). We are doing an Alaska cruise next May and I’m already stressing that we’re only flying in 1 day ahead!
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I think you should at least be very prepared with alternative plans. The biggest con with these low budget airlines is the don’t have any agreements with other airlines to rebook passengers whose flights have been canceled, as another poster already mentioned. If there are no other flights before your cruise leaves you are out of luck. I also don’t know that you are automatically guaranteed a seat on the next flight or if that’s dependent on availability; that’s probably something you should confirm as that would be critical information.
I would research other airlines that fly your route and see what the fares were for January historically so you will have an idea of what you might have to pay if your Spirit flight was canceled and your only option to make your cruise was to book a flight on another airline yourself. You might be better off to cancel your Spirit flight now, swallow the $ loss, and book on another airline now. Or, if you have trip insurance that would cover this type of situation, and you could accept missing your cruise, stick with your Spirit flight and have an alternate land vacation plan.
I’m such a worst case scenario type of person that for the 3 cruises I’ve gone on that required flying to the departure port, we’ve flown in 2 days before on major carriers so that we had time to drive to the port if necessary (live in Maine, cruising out of Canaveral or Miami). We are doing an Alaska cruise next May and I’m already stressing that we’re only flying in 1 day ahead!