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Spirit airlines fares are even lower. now, you can fly spirit for as low as $1 each way. reporter: how do they do it? they squeeze every penny out of every airplane. this is an airbus ac-19. we operate with 145 seats, which is the most the faa will let us us put on the airplane. reporter: when other airlines operate, how much seats do they put in? 126. reporter: how much leg room is sacrificed? couple inches per seat in general. reporter: that is ben baldanza. he believes that passengers will sacrifice a lot to save a lot. he took over the struggling airline, called spirit. and gave it, well, a new spirit. the way we like to think of it is that the biggest difference between us and other airlines is they give you a free coke. but they charge you $150 more. if i want to sell you a can of coke for $150, that s what you pay on airlines. reporter: it s not that they charge $2 for a coke. they also charge $12 to reserve ....