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Spirit Airlines cancels almost half of Thursday flights
The Hill ^ | 08/05/2021 | Lexi Lonas

Posted on 08/05/2021 10:11:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27

Spirit Airlines canceled almost half of its flights on Thursday, continuing its series of flight cancellations into a fifth day.

Flight tracker FlightAware showed 381 flights canceled by Spirit Airlines before 10 a.m. on Thursday, with 48 percent of flights for the day already canceled, USA Today reported.

It is the fifth day Spirit Airlines has struggled with flight cancellations as more than 50 percent of flights were canceled Sunday, Tuesday and Wednesday. Around 42 percent of flights were canceled Monday.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: airlines; cancels; flights; spirit
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Staffing storages?? Wonder why that is....... BTW, I flew with Spirit in 2018. When I was done online picking the seat and baggage it cost me an extra 120 bucks.
1 posted on 08/05/2021 10:11:09 AM PDT by ChicagoConservative27
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Big time HIDING going on here.

Either unions, or govt mandates.

No truth yet.


2 posted on 08/05/2021 10:13:21 AM PDT by George from New England
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Not how you gain repeat customers.


3 posted on 08/05/2021 10:14:29 AM PDT by BBQToadRibs2
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I’m still confused why Spirit doesn’t serve Colt 45 beer and Kool brand cigarettes to their high mileage fliers.


4 posted on 08/05/2021 10:14:38 AM PDT by tatown
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To: ChicagoConservative27

I wonder what the minority status of the employees for Spirit is? That may be a tell.


5 posted on 08/05/2021 10:18:07 AM PDT by vetvetdoug
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Jet Blue is doing similar cancellations.


6 posted on 08/05/2021 10:18:09 AM PDT by Zathras
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To: George from New England

Yes, this is a rather fishy story...I suspect more going on than lack of staff.


7 posted on 08/05/2021 10:18:23 AM PDT by caww ( )
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To: caww

American cancelled flight from OIA...


8 posted on 08/05/2021 10:21:01 AM PDT by blackberry1
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Is this due to those reported shortages of jet fuel? Eco airlines probably don’t have long term contracts.


9 posted on 08/05/2021 10:22:10 AM PDT by BiglyCommentary
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We paid for reservations long before flight date.spirit never even bothered to call jr leave a message they were cancelling all flights. We were left stranded with our baggage at their closed airport gate. Nobody to even help us. A neighboring gate’s airline crew took pity on us abd the other jilted spirit patrons stick there — and offered to help find alternate flights for us. They found us one on a third airline but it cost us because they said spirit doesn’t pay forward or refund any collected ticket prices. Spirit never did refund us or even return our calls or answer our letters. We will never ever again consider spirit. How they are permitted to remain in business is a mystery. They appear to be a total scam


10 posted on 08/05/2021 10:22:11 AM PDT by faithhopecharity (Politicians are not born, they are excreted. Marcus Tullius Cicero (106 to 43 BCE))
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Staffing has been a big problem since this COVID scam-demic; the media doesn’t know any more than anyone else about the problem. All they can do is throw out innuendo’s to see what sticks.


11 posted on 08/05/2021 10:23:16 AM PDT by SkyDancer (I Identify As Vaccinated - non-injected.)
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To: George from New England

Rumor is a pilot strike.


12 posted on 08/05/2021 10:27:32 AM PDT by rightwingintelligentsia (Democrats: The perfect party for the helpless and stupid, and those who would rule over them.)
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To: blackberry1

Where is OIA?


13 posted on 08/05/2021 10:29:37 AM PDT by Menehune56 ("Let them hate so long as they fear" (Oderint Dum Metuant), Lucius Accius (170 BC - 86 BC))
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To: faithhopecharity

Spirit Airlines is not worth the trouble on a good day. They do what they did to you all the time. Other airlines have their problems, but Spirit is in a class all by themselves.

I’ve heard they are having a big problem with a ground employee shortage right now in FLL.


14 posted on 08/05/2021 10:33:10 AM PDT by jean michael
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To: ChicagoConservative27

The Hill has reached out to Spirit Airlines for comment.


investigative reporting...........................


15 posted on 08/05/2021 10:33:13 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere.)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Well, I can say first hand that Spirit cancelled a flight from New Orleans to Chicago on Monday, but it was due to weather because of a big storm. I know this because I was on a later flight with another airline that wasn’t cancelled but I talked to some of the people on the Spirit flight who were stuck in the airport.


16 posted on 08/05/2021 10:33:43 AM PDT by Boogieman
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To: ChicagoConservative27

We are flying to Brussels in September. The flight is advertised for 30 Euros each way. If you want to bring a suitcase and choose a seat it goes up to 130 Euros.


17 posted on 08/05/2021 10:34:07 AM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
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To: tatown
Kool brand cigarettes

The brothers called them "Looks," back in the day.
18 posted on 08/05/2021 10:35:56 AM PDT by oh8eleven (RVN '67-'68)
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To: ChicagoConservative27

Sound like ransom ware that the Xiden Usurpation has declared a hands off attitude toward.

Can’t help thinking that there’s a Hunter connection.


19 posted on 08/05/2021 10:36:40 AM PDT by fella ("As it was before Noah so shall it be again,")
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To: rightwingintelligentsia

Rumor is a pilot strike.

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Why wouldn’t the pilots be contacting the media, or some representative for them putting out a press release?

That just seems odd.


20 posted on 08/05/2021 10:37:04 AM PDT by z3n
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