Jay Leno, Tonight Show, Oct. 3, 2012 “Spirit Airlines – maybe it should be called Mean-Spirited Airlines – is going to charge customers $100 for every carry-on bag if you buy your ticket at the gate. A hundred bucks for a bag. Exactly. Hey, for a hundred bucks, we should be carried on, okay?” [Context: Spirit Airlines announced that it would raise its fee for carry-on bags from $45 to $100 on Nov. 6. That's in cases where the passenger pays the fee at the gate.] “Oh, this past weekend, I flew to Dallas on American Airlines. The flight attendant gave me a bag of nuts – and then the bolts to go with them so I could hold my seat down. I thought that was nice.” “Have you heard American’s new slogan? ‘Contents of plane may shift during the flight.’” “For the third time this week, and it’s only Wednesday, it’s only Wednesday, American Airlines had a row of seats break loose and become free. In fact, during the flight, the pilot said if you look on the right side of the plane, you can see the people who were sitting on the left side of the plane.” [American had three instances in which a seat row came loose during flights on Wednesday, Sept. 26; Saturday, Sept. 29; and Monday, Oct. 1.]
