Spirit Airlines and JetBlue have continued canceling an unusually high number of flights Monday, while other U.S. airlines appear to be righting their operations after major struggles over the weekend.\u00a0<\/p>\n
According to FlightAware, Spirit had cancelled 235 flights, amounting to 29% of its Monday schedule, as of 1:30 p.m. Eastern time. JetBlue had cancelled 138 flights, amounting to 13% of its Monday schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Those figures, though high, are an improvement from the operational problems that beset each carrier from Friday through Sunday. Spirit canceled 15% of its flights Friday, 30% on Saturday and 40% on Sunday, according to FlightAware.<\/p>\n
JetBlue cancelled 8% of flights Friday, 17% Saturday and 35% Sunday.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Overall, U.S. airlines canceled more than 4,400 flights from Friday through Sunday, or 6% of all scheduled operations. Carriers blamed weekend storms in Florida as a major cause of the cascading network problems.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Allegiant, Alaska, American, Southwest and Frontier, each of which canceled at least 9% of their mainline flights on Sunday, have improved their performances Monday. Among those carriers, only Alaska canceled more than 2% of scheduled flights as of 1:30 p.m. Alaska had canceled 39 flights, 5% of its Monday schedule.\u00a0<\/p>\n