Spirit and American Airlines cancel hundreds of flights again | Aviation News

Spirit Airlines and American Airlines canceled a wave of flights for the second day in a row, causing thousands of passengers to be stranded and exacerbating concerns that a shortage of crew members is exacerbating problems initially caused by weather and technical issues.

American Airlines Group Corporation and Spirit Airlines cancelled hundreds of flights on Tuesday, leaving thousands of passengers stranded and raising concerns that the shortage of crew members has exacerbated problems initially caused by weather and technical issues.

According to FlightAware.com, American Airlines cancelled 284 flights after 563 flights were grounded on Monday, accounting for 9% of its plans. After the storm hit the airline’s Dallas-Fort Worth International and Miami international hubs over the weekend, the route was cancelled. Spirit grounded 624 flights in two days, affected by weather and other challenges. This is equivalent to 42% of its daily schedule.

Reduced flights have increased delays and cancellations, which have exacerbated the peak summer travel season as airlines have increased their services in response to the unexpected surge in demand for holidays and social visits after people vaccinated against the coronavirus. In some cases, the airline was unable to recover quickly because the crew reached the maximum number of working hours, because of increasing delays, and the reserve team was dug out.

Dennis Tajer, spokesperson for the Allied Pilots Association, said, “The data we are reviewing shows that as of Tuesday morning, a total of 284 U.S. flights were grounded, of which more than 222 flights were cancelled and blamed on the pilots.” “This is very unsatisfactory. This is unacceptable.”

He said: “We commend them for their efforts to get the plane to take off, but unless you have a plane and a pilot, you are just selling paper.” Spirit’s cockpit crew is represented by the Airline Pilots Association, which stated that its members are working Work hard to help restore full operations.

On Sunday and Monday morning, American Airlines is still working to recover from the heavy rain and wind around Dallas. Airline spokesperson Whitney Zastrow said that the storm affected more than nine hours of flights, prompting the Federal Aviation Administration to implement ground delays.

“We spent the entire day yesterday trying to relocate our aircraft and crew-many of them overtime due to long delays and unexpected diversions,” she said. “We expect that today’s operations will improve.”

American Airlines cancelled 950 flights in the first half of July in order to resume normal flights after the June storm.

Spirit stated in an email that after the outages caused by weather, system outages and staff shortages, it “implemented some voluntary cancellations again today to reset our operations.”