Spirit Airlines CEO says cancellations to continue into next week

The CEO apologized to passengers, saying the airline is working to rebuild its network.

Spirit Airlines customers should expect hundreds more cancellations in the coming days as the airline works to rebuild its network. CEO Ted Christie said weather issues coupled with staffing shortages led to mass flight cancellations at the airline this week. "How we got here really starts with a very challenging, operating month in the month of July," Christie said in an interview with ABC News. "Weather delays and logistics delays throughout the air transportation system built throughout the course of the month and ate away at all the redundancy that we had in our system." By the end of July, Spirit was forced to cancel flights for lack of crew availability, leading to a crew disruption throughout the airline's network.