Fight breaks out between Spirit Airlines flight attendants and passengers over fees

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On Monday night, a fight broke out between Spirit Airlines agents and a mother and daughter duo after the pair were told they had to pay an extra fee due to the bulk of their carry-on luggage.

A passenger who asked to remain anonymous told the Daily Mail, “I was shocked at how violent it was and how long it went on for. I don’t know exactly who started it, but there was a lot of yelling and I turned around to see two Spirit employees fighting a mother and daughter.”

“Someone was bleeding. At one stage a child got involved. Regardless of what he did, he’s just a kid – he looked distraught,” the passenger added.

The video shows the melee happening past the boarding desk near the gate preceding the loading bridge for the Fort Lauderdale-bound flight. The initial moments of the fight are obscured by the hallways, but multiple parties became absorbed in the brouhaha. 

The footage shows a young boy screaming repeatedly into the free-for-all for his mother.

The Daily Mail described the 17-year-old daughter tugging at “a Spirit staffer’s dreadlocks while an airport worker in a high vis jacket slaps her over the back of the head and shouts ‘get off, get off.'”

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