I would wait until the post scheduling structure change to make any rash decisions about this place. We will see if the turn type scheduling out of Florida that starts end of April will help alleviate these issues. If not, oh boy buckle up.

 

Rash? This place has always been run like a little league team. And how exactly will concentrating staffing in a highly weather-affected area possibly help matters? I just hope the basing optimizer software they based this decision off of wasn't developed by our IT department.

 

I just wonder if mgmt is ashamed of themselves by what they create or do they just take delta business class most of the time

 

I have a bunch of family flying to meet me on Spirit in 11 days in STT. Looking at the cancelation rate yesterday and today I am getting a bit nervous. I know there was weather last Friday and Saturday but all the other airlines have recovered the operation. Is Spirit putting out the issues or our they at a point they can’t staff the operation even in good weather?

 

The latter. It is a total ****show and management is incompetent. May the odds be in your family's favor, hope you have backup plans.

 

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.

 

Our FA today sat in crew room for 18+ hours with no hotel room this weekend and no call from CS….
Shame.

 

At some point you have to make adult decisions. I wouldn’t sit there more than a couple of hours.

 

Its like a deer that stands in the middle of a road with an oncoming truck heading towards them; do I really feel bad that the deer doesnt know to get out of the way? The good news is I bet she got some excellent TikTok time in and posted plenty of stuff for the "'Gram"

 

Some of those FAs may not even have the money to book their own room, especially last minute in a city that’s essentially “full” (read: extremely expensive to book the last suite or whatever is left). The new ones especially barely make any money. Waiting for scheduling to get them a room is possibly their only option.