Spirit Airlines cancels 60% of scheduled flights on third day of "operational issues"
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As of Tuesday evening, Spirit Airlines has canceled 60%, or 416, of the day's scheduled flights due to "operational issues" that have impacted the carrier for three consecutive days, according to FlightAware — a multinational aviation database.
The airline's issues, first reported over the weekend, were due to overlapping problems including staffing shortages, the weather and system outages, according to Spirit Airlines spokesperson Erik Hofmeyer. "In responding to these challenges, Spirit has implemented some proactive cancellations again today to reset our operations," Hofmeyer said Tuesday.Billions of cicadas are emerging across about 16 states in the Southeast and Midwest. Periodical cicadas used to reliably emerge every 13 or 17 years, depending on their brood. But in a warming world where spring conditions arrive sooner, climate change is messing with the bugs' internal alarm clocks.
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