Like Spirit Airlines only someone is to blame as the reason for almost 90 percent of it delayed flights on Thursday. According to a tweet from Spirit at 8:44 am on ThursdayA technical issue has affected the budget airline’s website and mobile app, halting operations.
NBC News reported that an email statement from the airline was sent at 10:44 am – two hours later – and it said the issue had been resolved.
“We have resolved a network issue between third party services that affected our website, mobile app and some internal applications,” Spirit told NBC News in an email. “We apologize for any delay and inconvenience, and we are now working our way back to normal operations.”
The outlet reported that a flight tracking website showed that under 24 percent of all spirit the flights were actually going to leave on time at 10:30 am on Thursday, but it got worse. By noon that same day, only about 90 percent of all Spirits flights are delayed, and that’s if you’re lucky. About three percent of Spirit’s flights were canceled entirely.
According to the same website, Anuvu’s pulse, only 50 percent of Spirit flights had on-time departures as of 10 am today – roughly 24 hours since the technical snafu first occurred. 2.65 percent of all Spirit flights have been canceled so far.
It’s a less than perfect one start during the Summer travel season if your app and website crash on the first day of June. Yes I know June 1 is not technically the first day of Summer, but for my dumb brain it is. The industry is doing everything to avoid the mess that happened Summer travel season in 2022.
It will be a difficult task when you consider that NBC said the Transportation Security Administration reported that 2023 screening volumes exceeded 2019 – pre-pandemic – levels.
“We’re not out of the woods,” US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg told the outlet in a pre-Memorial Day interview. “We’ve seen demand for air travel come back – and the system has struggled to keep up.
