BRADENTON, Fla. â The sun had not yet set last Friday on a field ringed by palm trees when, on the first play from scrimmage, Shea Patterson rolled to his left and threw a 69-yard touchdown pass for his high school, IMG Academy, a private, for-profit sports boarding school.
Spirit is one of two domestic carriers that charge for carry-on bags. The other is Allegiant Air, which instituted a fee last month. On that carrier, a carry-on costs as much as $35.
Spirit, one of the few airlines that charges customers for carry-on bags, said it is raising the fee to cut down on the number of passengers who don't in advance. âOur goal is for no customer ever to pay the $100 fee,â said Tony Lefebvre, Spirit's chief operating officer.