Not to dig up the past, but I just flew out on a Southwest flight recently, and while I was there, your post came to mind. Here's why: Southwest is also on Airside C (same as Spirit). Spirit is on one end of the airside, Chili's is on the opposite end. So while I was waiting, and since my gate was right next to Chili's, I walked from Chili's to Spirit's gate. Now I walked at a slightly faster than normal pace, and it still took a good full 5 minutes to make the trip. This means that from the time you were at the gate to be told the flight was delayed, walked back to Chili's, sat for 10 minutes, then went back, you were gone from the gate a full 20 minutes. And that's assuming you were looking at your watch, and left the table exactly 10 minutes from the time you sat down.
The other part is, Spirit can make an airside wide page, but as soon as another gate keys up their PA mic, it overrides that announcement in that area. And with Southwest operating about 60 flights a day or so, those PA's are quite busy, so even if Spirit did make an announcement, there is nothing they can do about what happens in Southwest's territory, which you were deep within.
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