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Chaos broke out at a Florida airport on Monday after multiple Spirit Airlines flights were canceled, leading to long lines, irate customers and altercations, according to police.
This sort of thing is going to continue to happen and more frequently. People feel disenfranchised for many, many reasons. All that energy has to go somewhere.
Delta had similar cancellations, delays and long lines approx 1 month ago and it lasted for several days. Thousands of flights were cancelled and many flights delayed for many hours. My flight was delayed by 8 hours that day and the passengers on my flight were cool headed. We were worried our flight would be cancelled and were thankful that it didn't get cancelled. The passengers applauded for several minutes when the boarding announcement was made.
You left out the part where a bunch of pilots decided to be no-shows leading to multiple flight cancellations.
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Spirit said it filed a federal lawsuit against the Airline Pilots Association, which it accused of intentionally disrupting the airline's operations, leading to hundreds of canceled flights.
The Fort Lauderdale airport is an absolute zoo in general I use it fairly often. It doesn't matter what airline you're using..there's always issues there. I was there 2 years ago coming back from the Bahamas when that Boeing 767 plane caught on fire on the runway. It was complete chaos. I had to stay overnight in Fort Lauderdale at a hotel and couldn't fly back home until the next day.
"American Airlines, the world’s biggest carrier, is planning to cut legroom in its economy cabins by up to two inches, in a bid to make room for additional passenger seats.
Passengers in the 18 seats with two inches less legroom will be charged normal economy fares and these seats will not fall under the airline’s new basic economy fares, which are lower priced as passengers aren’t allowed access to overhead bins, reserved seating or to accrue air miles."
Someone said, "Airlines can possibly get any worse"
Thanks whoever you are for tempting fate.
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