Via Deals We Like, Spirit is giving away 5000 free miles to promote their bus tour (at which participants who show up will all get an additional 5000 miles).
Though they want a zip code and a city which corresponds to one of their tour stops, the terms and conditions (.pdf) of the offer say it’s open to residents of the 50 U.S. states and Canada (oddly enough, who are 21 years of age or older.. presumably some legal requirements since there’s also a sweepstakes for more miles attached).
The terms and conditions also say that you have to provide a valid home address, but they don’t ask for a home address, only a zip code. Most likely just an oversight in the terms and conditions but since this is Spirit I suppose I could imagine them denying the grand prize winner their million miles for failing to provide the required home address. Heh.
Spirit is a dreadful airline in my view, but to some free miles are free miles, so I pass this along anyway. And I’ll do the same if I hear about any good promos in the Greyhound Road Rewards program, too!
Thank goodness the tour dates don’t conflict with the FT awards or FT university. 🙂
Not riding Greyhound would be the most rewarding part of Greyhound Road Rewards for me 😛
Are these usable in any way?
The confirmation e-mail says that they will e-mail a “certificate” for the miles by June 15. Perhaps part of the trade-off is that you now have to read their spam carefully for the next and a half months to check each message to see if that is the one that includes the certificate.
Oops. “next and a half months” should have read “next TWO and a half months.” I’ll try to check my postings more carefully in the future.
I have to say, I flew Spirit BOS-ACY and went in expecting the worst, so it wasn’t that bad. The pitch was awful, but at $19 each way pp and $20 for a carry-on (we shared one carry-on), the total, after all taxes, airport fees and what-not was $100 pp round trip, only about half of which went to Spirit, with the rest to various gov’t entities.
The cabin crew and check-in folks were friendly, they got us out relatively on-time despite weather delays and I like the boarding where Group 1 was people with bags, so I wasn’t tripping over people trying to shove their bags in an overhead.
I’ll be the first to say, though, that nothing went wrong, and this is the area in which I heard Spirit is really poor.
Mike