Originally Posted by CincoDeMayo

Should have flown Delta...kidding, but also serious

FWIW, JBLU and NK are in a race for the cancelation trophy from this latest storm. SWA and F9 are still over 10% canceled, so its not like its only Spirit. I think JBLU took the longest to get out of the last meltdown a few months back but clearly Spirit will take the longest this time.

11 days is a long time away, this isnt a staffing issue, its a "where are the crews" at issue. Typical Spirit meltdown of cancelations and undermanned crew schedulers are trying to put Humpty Dumpty back together again with crews stuck at outstations, and this is all being down manually. Spirit still does not have the software that other airlines have to make schedule changes on the fly when issues arise. I would expect, based on my experience of 10+ years of meltdowns, this will be much better in a few days. They are proactively canceling to basically "reset" the operation and get people back into bases.

But a good lesson, I dont fly family on Spirit in Spring-Summer because ive seen this way too many times.