Spirit Airlines Cancels Half its Tuesday Flights; American Airlines Also Struggling
Spirit Airlines canceled nearly half its schedule for Tuesday, the third straight day of extremely high cancellation numbers at the budget airline.
By early afternoon, the low-cost carrier had canceled about 320 flights, or 47% of its schedule, according to the FlightAware tracking service. In addition, dozens more flights were late. The blame appeared to lie at least partly with a technology outage affecting crew scheduling.
American Airlines had canceled nearly 300 flights by early afternoon Tuesday, but it is much larger than Spirit, and those flights amounted to a less-alarming 9% of its schedule.
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