Personally? I think Spirit is a crappy airline and you get what you pay for .... Having said this .... I side with the airline in this respect for many reasons ....
#1 Spirit is a "no-frills" airline .... that means nothing on board except for a small carry on ... it is written "be'feirish" on the website..... Anyone that has travelled with them ... knows this.. that's why you paid $10.00 approx for your ticket ..
#2 I don't believe "Yisroel" from Bor-Park's story that a Spirit "gate-agent" allowed them to take it on ...its a lie!! I would venture to go out on a limb and say that "Yisroel" of Boro-Park thought that he was in the Voydistlover Shteeble, and tried to sneak it on.
#3 Why weren't they putting on the seat belts???? I don't see them refuting that fact!
#4 I agree with that flight attendant that allegedly called them "retarded" .....
An Orthodox Jewish family from New York was escorted off of a Spirit Airlines flight this week and banned from the airline for life following a heated dispute, which allegedly included anti-Semitic slurs, over a child safety seat.
According to a press release from the office of recently retired New York State Assemblyman Dov Hikind, the incident occurred this Tuesday on an early-morning Spirit Airlines flight from Newark, New Jersey to Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
A Jewish couple, identified as Chani and Yisroel from Boro Park, Brooklyn, traveling with their three small children – ages 3, 2, and 1-month - say the trouble began when a flight attendant spotted them with a dual-purpose baby seat and car seat.
The family says that the gate agent at Newark had told the couple that they would be able to take the dual-purpose seat onto the flight.