Both Spirit and American Airlines had multiple challenges resulting in flight cancellations over the last few days as monthly staffing schedules changed over. Combined with weather delays, this created a logistics nightmare resulting in multiple flight cancellations as crews became unavailable for their new schedule destinations.  There have been some unconfirmed reports that a crew scheduling system may have been involved in the hiccups at both airlines. History tells us what happens when there is an error.
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