Originally Posted by
Approach1260
I can't speak for Delta, but at least with American it seems that it's a toss up. Sometimes they'll cancel early, and other times they'll do the dreaded 30 minute rolling delay until it finally departs or cancels 6 hours later.
This meltdown doesn't make me think Spirit is going to fold, but it does make me wonder if management is actually prepared for the logistical side of growing the fleet as ambitiously as they've said.
They’ve been growing the fleet this aggressively for over a decade. I’m not trying to give management a pass, they screwed up big time, but I think it was a lot more than just poor planning that went into the meltdown. Maybe a bit of overconfidence that they could hire enough people. Maybe overconfidence in their subcontractors? Maybe overconfidence in the ability of scheduling. Either way they knew it was coming, they just didn’t make the decision to proactively stop it when they had the chance.