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Darsh
Darsh (@guest_975182)
May 8, 2020 12:05

If I cancel the spirit credit card without zeroing my miles, will my miles be taken away? Does anyone know? I have about $34K miles but too scared to fly anywhere because of COVID-19. Any other way to use Spirit miles? Thanks

Anthony
Anthony (@guest_640258)
September 8, 2018 17:00

I got my card about 6 weeks ago and have yet to get the $100 credit. The first time I spoke to the Spirit representative from Baghdad she said that it is a Bank of America credit. After calling Bank of America they said it was a Spirit Airlines Credit. 2 more calls back and forth wound up making a fifth call total and 3rd to Spirit New Delhi where it was finally acknowledged that I was do the $100 credit from them however it takes 4 to 8 weeks to apply to your account. If I don’t get it I’ll be canceling the account.

Matthew
Matthew (@guest_117559)
May 10, 2015 22:47

Question about one of your comments above:
“Spirit miles don’t expire as long as you make at least one purchase per month on your Spirit credit card, usually they expire within three months unless you have any earning activity”

Wouldn’t this be a purchase at least once every 3 months instead of every 1 month? I know it is better to play it safe than sorry, but wouldn’t once every 2 months be sufficient even if you wanted a little cushion?

Matthew
Matthew (@guest_117549)
May 10, 2015 22:30

Is this offer still valid?

Matthew
Matthew (@guest_117558)
May 10, 2015 22:45

Do you know their policy on offer matching if someone just recently applied and DIDN’T receive this offer?

Matthew
Matthew (@guest_118796)
May 12, 2015 23:40

I tried this yesterday but had no success with the mock booking and seeing the offer. I also called the toll-free number listed and tried to apply with that offer code mentioned above and they didn’t see anything in the bonus terms about the $100 credit, just the standard 15,000 points offer. Do you think this deal is now dead?

Audrey
Audrey (@guest_50000)
December 10, 2014 20:22

I’ve had the card for several years and it used to be the only one I really used due to the 2 miles/$ and low reward redemptions (sometimes). Flying Spirit is absolutely fine, I’ve gone to Mexico with my two kids for a month with only a personal item each and had no trouble. An underseat carryon usually meets criteria for a personal item. Obviously it’s a low cost airline but having recently flown both United and American I didn’t see much advantage to paying more. One potential issue is that if you miss your flight (even a connection) Spirit won’t put you on another carrier, and you do need to have activity once every three months to keep your miles.
If you mainly want the statement credit it doesn’t matter, but off peak availability used to be MUCH better and they had occasional awesome promotions, like returning all your miles after a redemption. The time periods are more suited to discretionary travel, but I have two kids and no money and flew many times to Cancun for roughly $80/each. Recently however there is rarely availability for the very low award levels, where there used to be lots. We were even able to go to Cartagena for 10K miles by booking the two legs separately. Nowadays, Cartagena availability is nonexistent. I have over 200K miles and have stopped using my card much because of this.
Still, I don’t understand why Spirit is so hated, when Frontier, with a similar model nowadays, is regularly promoted on these sites. Spirit is certainly in one’s face, but their prices are low, their planes are clean and on time, and they fly places I want to go.

Jeremiah
Jeremiah (@guest_49887)
December 10, 2014 13:36

I’m cheap, but I’m not a masochist. Spirit is a terrible, terrible airline. I guess if you’re able to get the card without a separate hard pull it’s no problem, but it’s hard for me to overstate my dislike for that airline.

JAMES B.
JAMES B. (@guest_49963)
December 10, 2014 18:34

Jeramiah, what is it that you dislike about Spirit? And what do you like about Spirit?

I personally have never flown with Spirit.

A friend of mine flies on Spirit 5-6 times a year. He does say that Spirit is very frugal and charges for almost everything. But he has never complained about their on time performance. Many times Spirit’s tickets are about half the price of other major airlines.

And most of Spirit’s flights are packed full.

John
John (@guest_49854)
December 10, 2014 10:45

My wife cancelled this card about 2 months ago
after zeroing out her miles account. Any guess if she
could reapply successfully?

Thanks,

John

JAMES B.
JAMES B. (@guest_49827)
December 10, 2014 09:01

I am really tempted to pull the trigger on this offer, but I have already reached my CC App limit for this time period. Hopefully this offer will be around next year. Do you know if there is an expiration date on this offer?

Interesting that BOA only does 1 hard pull for multiple apps in the same day. I believe Chase is similar. Is this true with most or all CC issuers?

It would be very helpful if you start putting the date time stamps on the blog headers. Do you agree?