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The reason people don't like Spirit has less to do with the airplanes and more to do with the typical Spirit passenger. Most of modern life in America is an elaborate series of choices to maximize the distance between yourself and Spirit airlines passengers. All the usual euphemisms apply: 'good school districts', 'safe suburban neighborhoods', etc

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This. but also with frontier.

- People using devices without headphones

- People having loud phone calls on speakerphone with vulgar language

- People with bad body odor

- People looking to optimize their outcomes, even at the expense of others and net deleterious. (Speaking in numbers, willing to take +1 point of selfish outcome at the cost of several others' -1 leaving a net negative for the group)

> Most of modern life in America is an elaborate series of choices to maximize the distance between yourself and Spirit airlines passengers

So much this. I regret that I have but one upvote to give.

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