Spirit Airlines canceled more than 40% of its schedule, or nearly 300 flights, as of midday Tuesday, according to the aviation tracking website FlightAware. Another 12% of its schedule was delayed, FlightAware reported.
Spirit Airlines is entering a third consecutive day with more than half of its schedule upended.
The airline told CNN it was proactively canceling flights because of"overlapping operational challenges including weather, system outages and staffing shortages in some areas." In the past few days, the issues reached a tipping point, the source said. The airline's schedulers spent Monday figuring out how to reset the system, rather than deal with day-of turmoil.Storms with gusty winds
Tuesday is typically one of the lighter travel days of the week, but purported customers posting on Spirit's social media accounts suggested some travelers were waiting to be rescheduled from weekend cancellations.The number of daily US flights overall is still lower than before the pandemic because business travel and international travel remains at a fraction of what it used to be.
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