Tuesday, November 26

Spirit Airlines in turbulence: more than 1,700 flights have been canceled and thousands of passengers are stranded at airports


Spirit Airlines en turbulencia: más de 1,700 vuelos han sido cancelados y miles de pasajeros se encuentran varados en los aeropuertos
Spirit is sending some passengers vouchers of $ 50 dollars as compensation for future flights.

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Before violent incidents on the ground and in the air of the airlines adds up the chaos that exists in some airports due to the sudden cancellation of hundreds of flights. Tens of thousands of Spirit Airlines passengers have been stranded since the weekend as the airline has canceled most of its flights .

Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie said this Thursday that have been canceled plus 1, 700 flights and blamed a number of factors that left the company without pilots and flight attendants in addition to informing that they are facing problems such as bad weather but that the company works against the clock to solve the problems .

Things started to get worse for airline passengers when a As of Sunday, August 1, hundreds of flights have been canceled . On Tuesday and Wednesday Spirit canceled more than 60% of his operations while on Thursday he canceled 449 flights.

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– Spirit Airlines (@SpiritAirlines) August 2, 2021

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The problems are not over

Spirit’s CEO cautioned that the bad news will continue for passengers during the next few days since until this Friday one in three flights have been canceled.

The low-cost airline informed that will pay the hotel expenses of passengers who are stranded as well as flight refunds and the cost of new reservations on other airlines.

Spirit is offering some passengers vouchers of $ 50 dollars for future flights as an attention to its consumers although some passengers have considered it an insult.

An avalanche of violent episodes on airlines are taking place across the country after last weekend a passenger past drinking assaulted a flight attendant and touched the breasts of a flight attendant so a video distributed on social networks has gone viral where it is observed how a Frontiers Airlines flight attendant ties the passenger to his seat with duct tape.

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