It was a 'Perfect storm' , We are Not Built to deal with this Level of Disruption and there is Some Learning , says Ted Christie , Spirit Airlines CEO !

And the Storm continues for the Travel Giant...

It was day Five and the Spirit Airlines with a fleet of 161 Airbus aircrafts, canceled half of it's Thursday flights, that brought the weekly total to over 1,700. On Sixth day, again the Chaos intrigued cancellations more than 50% due to Crew Roastering issues. 

What the carrier has labelled as "operational issues" have led to days of long ques, stranded passengers and, at times, more than half of Spirit's daily flights being cancelled – a trend that is continuing on Friday as well.

Erik Hofmeye, the Spirit Airlines spokesperson, blamed the high number of delays and cancellations to staffing shortages, severe weather and system outages that began Sunday.

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The case is not for the First time, the Current scenario is somewhat similar to a JetBlue Airways crisi in early 2007, when around 1,000 flights were canceled over a five-day period.

JetBlue's founder and then CEO David Neeleman said at the time that he was " humiliated and mortified" by the travel mess. The incident took it to a Harvard Business school case.

On Wednesday, Hofmeye had said that the airline was hoping to "progressively drop" the number of cancellations over the coming days.

Earlier in the week, the airline wasn't the only one facing issues. American Airlines canceled hundreds of flights as it struggled to recover from summer storms in Dallas - Fort Worth, home to its largest hub.

Puzzle Needs to be Solved !

Earlier on Thursday , Spirit said that it expected cancellations to continue throughout the week and over the weekend - but there is a plan in place to deal with the main issue of crew scheduling, the airline added.

In an interview with  ABC News , however, Spirit Airlines CEO Ted Christie said passengers should expect cancellations to continue into the middle of next week.

Explaining the reasons for the cancellation, Christie said:

It was a Perfect storm , "When we started canceling our crews got dislocated throughout our system. "There were in the wrong place at the wrong time. And we needed to start to build that puzzle back together again. "And unfortunately that takes our group a lot of time to do.

"So we started cancelling deeper and deeper into the operation to give them that time. The good news is that's now finally starting to bear some fruit.

But the CEO is Hopeful,

"We are starting to turn the tide here and get out operation back moving again, there will still be cancellations over the next few days, but we can start to build back to the full operation, and then, and then build from the takeaways that we get from this last week."