Passengers at an airport in Florida protested on Monday night after the cancellation of multiple flights, leading to a confrontation with airline employees and sheriff’s deputies who arrested three travelers while attempting to restore order.

According to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office, the arrests were made after customers screamed at and threatened Spirit Airline employees, inciting unrest in a crowd of about 500 people at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

Their anger was set off by the flight cancellations, the sheriff’s office said in a statement, and deputies were sent in to calm the crowd. Flight Aware, a flight-tracking site, indicated that 11 Spirit Airlines flights were canceled at the airport on Monday and that 30 were delayed.

Arrest reports assert that those detained were threatening to harm airline employees and challenging them to fights. All three of the people who were arrested were charged with disorderly conduct, inciting a riot and resisting arrest.</s>CHICAGO (CBS) — Several Spirit Airlines flights to and from Chicago have been cancelled, as the company accuses pilots of an illegal slowdown amid a contract dispute.

At least nine Spirit flights to and from O’Hare International Airport have been canceled as of Tuesday morning. Another four have been delayed. That could be due to “pilot unavailability,” which Spirit said caused 81 cancellations nationwide on Monday.

“We never got an email, no text message that the flight was cancelled, so it’s very frustrating to know at the last minute that your flight is cancelled,” Jude Akpede said. “These are people’s lives, and a lot of people are going for interviews, and stuff like that that they have to be in New York today, and cancelling the flight, it doesn’t look good. We’re very frustrated.”

Travelers clashed with Spirit employees and police at a check-in counter at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after a flight was cancelled at the last minute Monday. Three people were arrested.

A total of nine Spirit flights were cancelled at Fort Lauderdale, causing hundreds of passengers to be stranded.

Spirit said 20,000 customers have been affected by cancelled flights since last week, blaming “pilot unavailability.”

The airline sought a court order seeking a halt to an alleged job action by the pilots’ union, claiming pilots are illegally refusing work “in order to bring pressure on Spirit during current negotiations.” The company claimed it has caused “irreparable harm to Spirit and the traveling public.”

The Air Line Pilots Association has denied Spirit pilots are engaged in any type of job action, and said they are “continuing to do everything possible to help restore the company’s operations.” The union also promised to defend the pilots against the “unwarranted” legal action by the airline.

According to Spirit’s lawsuit, the two sides are “far apart on pay rates” for pilots.</s>FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. – Screams and commotion took over Fort Lauderdale’s airport Monday as travelers clashed with Spirit Airlines employees and police.

About 300 Spirit flights have been canceled over the past seven days, leaving thousands of passengers angry. The airline says its own pilots are behind the cancellations and is suing them in federal court.

Passengers across the country faced hours-long delays and flight cancellations for days. By Monday night, some travelers in Florida had enough.

The front ticket counter at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport turned into chaos, and Broward County deputies stepped in to try restore the peace between passengers and airline employees.

Travelers stormed off an airplane after their flight was canceled and swarmed the ticket counter, where dozens of passengers were already waiting in line, passengers told CNN.

“Everyone was already aggravated about flight delays and the ridiculousness of standing in such a long line for hours, which Spirit Airlines did nothing to help, and then in walks these people off their flight raising a ruckus (and) cussing and screaming and they went straight to the counter,” passenger Cindy Matthews Beard told CNN.

Video footage shows deputies struggling with travelers. Some were pulled aside from the crowd, while others were taken to the ground and placed in handcuffs. Three passengers were taken into custody, according to Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

Spirit Airlines spokesman Paul Berry said the company was “shocked and saddened” to see the events at the Ft. Lauderdale airport and blamed its pilots.

“These pilots have put their quest for a new contract ahead of getting customers to their destinations and the safety of their fellow Spirit Team Members,” Berry said in a statement.

In a federal lawsuit, the airline says cancellations have been caused by pilot unavailability and is accusing the pilots’ union — the Airline Pilots Association, International (ALPA) — of orchestrating an unlawful slowdown.

Spirit canceled 81 flights on Sunday alone, according to the lawsuit, comprising approximately 17% of the carrier’s scheduled flights for the day. They estimate that about 20,000 customers have been affected since the cancellations began last week.

The ALPA denied carrying out a slowdown in a statement to CNN.

“Rather, ALPA and the Spirit pilots are continuing to do everything possible to help restore the company’s operations, which have experienced significant problems over the past several days,” a spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.

The airline says pilots are turning down “open time” flights and last minute assignments that would make them earn twice their pay. In the lawsuit, the airline claims union members have engaged in a campaign threatening and intimidating other pilots who accept last-minute assignments.

The union leaders were already anticipating legal action Friday. In a message to members, leaders said the airline believed the union was behind the shortage of pilots and encouraged them to work.

“Simply put, pilots who want to pick up open time should do so and not be questioned,” the message said.

These tensions don’t come as a surprise.

Since 2015, the airline and the pilots union have been part of several formal and informal contract negotiations but they have not reached an agreement.

Last years, groups of pilots picketed at the Dallas airport and outside the airline’s headquarters in Miramar, Florida.</s>Cellphone footage has emerged showing passengers engaged in a wild brawl with police officers and Spirit Airlines employees at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport in Florida on Monday, May 7. Chaos erupted at the airport following multiple cancellations of Spirit Airlines flights that left hundreds of travelers stranded.

The footage shows officers struggling to enforce order as a crowd of unruly passengers brawled freely in front of the Spirit Airlines ticket counter at the terminal.

The passengers had reportedly waited up to three hours to either change their tickets or get refunds after Spirit Airlines canceled several flights abruptly, leaving the passengers stranded in Broward County, Florida, WFOR reported.

About 300 Spirit Airlines flights have been canceled across the country since the beginning of the month of May, leaving thousands of passengers stranded, according to CNN. The matter came to a head in Broward County when the airline canceled nine flights on Monday night alone, leaving hundreds more stranded. The stranded passengers rushed to the ticket counter, only to find hundreds of other passengers from previous flight cancellations who had been waiting for hours in front of the ticket counter without getting attention from the airline employees.

“Everyone was already aggravated about flight delays and the ridiculousness of standing in such a long line for hours, which Spirit Airlines did nothing to help,” passenger Cindy Matthews Beard told CNN. “And then in walks these people off their flight raising a ruckus and cussing, and screaming, and they went straight to the counter.”

Tempers boiled over as frustrated passengers jostled each other, pushed, cursed, and screamed in front of the ticket counter. Broward County deputies intervened to restored order but instead clashed with frustrated passengers.

Some passengers accused the officers of worsening the confusion by using excessive force to control the already incensed crowd.

As the commotion escalated into mayhem, a Broward County Sheriff’s deputy was knocked down roughly, leading to the arrest of several passengers who were later charged with disorderly conduct, according to WSVN.

Spirit Airlines later issued a statement, saying the cancellations were caused by their pilots and that the airline was suing them in a federal court. Spirit Airlines said it filed a federal lawsuit against the Air Line Pilots Association, International (ALPA) in Florida’s South District on Monday, accusing the pilots’ union of engaging in “pervasive illegal work slowdown” that could cause “irreparable harm to [the airline’s] goodwill with its customers.”

The lawsuit claimed that as a result of the disruptive action by the pilots, about 300 flights have been canceled since the beginning of the month, 81 on Sunday and 28 on Tuesday morning alone. The lawsuit estimated that about 20,000 travelers have been affected by flight cancellations resulting from the action of the pilots.

Reacting specifically to the incident at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport, a spokesperson for Spirit Airlines, Paul Berry, said the management of the airline was “shocked and saddened” by what happened.

“This is a result of unlawful labor activity by some Spirit pilots designed to disrupt Spirit operations for our customers, by canceling multiple flights across our network,” Berry said, according to the Washington Post. “These pilots have put their quest for a new contract ahead of getting customers to their destinations and the safety of their fellow Spirit Team Members.”

However, NBC News reported that there is an ongoing labor dispute between Spirit Airlines and ALPA over better contract terms. According to Captain Stuart Morrison, chairman of the Spirit Airlines unit of ALPA, the contracts being offered pilots by the airline were below accepted industry standards.

“Spirit pilots are not prepared to embark on the fool’s errand of accepting substandard pay and retirement based on the unenforceable hypothesis that the Company may grow more quickly,” Morrison said in a statement. “Our peers throughout the industry have uniformly and properly rejected agreements based on that theory.”

However, ALPA denied engaging in a slowdown, saying it was cooperating with Spirit to restore normal services while going ahead to respond to the airline’s lawsuit.

“The Air Line Pilots Association, International and the Spirit pilot group it represents are not engaged in a job action,” a statement by ALPA said. “Rather, ALPA and the Spirit pilots are continuing to do everything possible to help restore the company’s operations.”

“While we will continue these efforts, we will actively defend the association, its officers and its member pilots against the unwarranted and counterproductive legal action brought this evening by Spirit Airlines,” the statement added.</s>Spirit Airlines’ flight operations at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport were gradually returning to normal Tuesday after the discount carrier sued its pilots union alleging a slowdown that cost the company $8.5 million.

As of the early afternoon, there were six flight cancellations and 19 delays for Spirit at the Fort Lauderdale airport, according to tracking website FlightAware.com.

That’s in stark contrast to the 300 Spirit flights that were impacted system-wide in the last week due to an alleged pilots slowdown.

In a lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale, Spirit asserted an illegal, week-long pilots slowdown resulted in hundreds of unforeseen flight disruptions across its network, tying up operations from Fort Lauderdale and other key U.S. cities the airline serves.

The 1,600-member contingent of the Air Line Pilots Association at Spirit denied it was involved in a job action.

Early Tuesday, lines still persisted at the Spirit counter at the Fort Lauderdale airport as passengers queued up to see if they could get re-booked on flights.

While there were some weary-looking travelers slumped over on their luggage to catch some sleep, and about a dozen Broward Sheriff's Office deputies standing nearby the ticket counters, the scene inside Spirit’s Terminal 4 appeared to be normal for a major airport.

Four Rock Valley College sophomores looking to return to Rockford, Illinois for finals found out on their Uber ride to Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood Tuesday morning that their return would likely be delayed.

"The driver turned on the radio and we heard about the fights in the terminal and the first thing we thought was 'oh no, there goes our flight,'" said Austin Roddewig, 20.They were in Miami to attend the Rolling Loud Festival.

The students immediately went to the ticket counter and were re-booked, two of them getting a flight Tuesday afternoon, out of Miami International Airport on American Airlines, and two flying out Wednesday night on Spirit, the company paying for their overnight stay at a hotel.

Chicago visitors Tamari Cameron, 23, and Latreece Smith, 26, spent the night at the airport after their flight was canceled.

"It started last night, flights were canceled," Cameron said. "Fights broke out due to the frustration with Spirit and customers and then it turned into customers against police."

With an 8:30 a.m. flight to Chicago showing as canceled, Cameron and her travel companion were eventually told they could fly out Wednesday morning.

"But I am even skeptical about that," Cameron said.

Three travelers were arrested late Monday at the Fort Lauderdale airport, as tempers flared and threats of bodily harm were hurled against Spirit employees trying to assist affected travelers, according to the Broward County Sheriff’s Office.

In its lawsuit filed late Monday, Spirit said the pilots’ work slowdown over the past week has led to approximately 300 cancellations and affected more than 20,000 customers, and resulting in $8.5 million in lost revenue and “irreparable harm to its goodwill.”

Spirit alleges the pilots’ action is an attempt to influence current labor negotiations, and that it “reluctantly filed this suit to protect” its customers and operations.

For more than two years Spirit and its pilots, represented by the Air Line Pilots Association International, have been in contract negotiations. Talks are now supervised by the National Mediation Board in Washington, D.C.

“We are disappointed that ALPA has decided to engage in this unlawful slowdown,” said Paul Berry, Spirit spokesman, in a statement. “This is clearly unlawful activity under the Railway Labor Act, which governs labor relations in the airline industry. ALPA and those individuals responsible should be held accountable.”

In court documents, the Miramar-based carrier said the pilots’ refusal to accept junior assignments or pick up available “open time flying” led to the system wide flight cancellations that have hit operations at key cities such as Fort Lauderdale, Chicago O-Hare, Detroit and Las Vegas the hardest.

“The Air Line Pilots Association and the Spirit pilot group it represents are not engaged in a job action,” the union said in a statement late Monday responding to the lawsuit. “Rather, ALPA and the Spirit pilots are continuing to do everything possible to help restore the company’s operations, which have experienced significant problems over the past several days. While we will continue these efforts, we will actively defend the association, its officers and its member pilots against the unwarranted and counterproductive legal action brought this evening by Spirit Airlines.”

Still in recent months, Spirit pilots have voiced concern over the slow pace of contract negotiations and their dissatisfaction with current pay rates, retirement benefits and its lack of profit-sharing.

In a statement last month following the airline’s first-quarter earnings report, which showed a solid profit, a representative for the unionized pilots suggested the company needs to share the wealth.

“Spirit management continues to drag its heels and create labor uncertainty as we enter the busy summer travel season,” noted Capt. Stuart Morrison, chairman of the Spirit unit of ALPA. “Spirit pilots are demanding a contract that provides industry-standard compensation and a long-term future for this airline—and Spirit continues to show it can well afford it.”

Sun Sentinel staff writers Brian Ballou and Joe Cavaretta contributed to this report.</s>FT. LAUDERDALE, Fla. (NBC) — Cellphone video captured the mayhem that erupted Monday night at the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport after hundreds of travelers became stranded.

Security wrestled with unruly passengers as punches flew, leading to at least three arrests. Screams wailed through the under-construction terminal, as officers wrestled passengers to the ground.

At the Spirit Airlines ticket counters, swarms of distraught customers waited two to three hours in an attempt to learn why they had been stranded in Broward County, Florida.

The cancellations stemmed from an ongoing labor dispute between Spirit Airlines and the Air Line Pilots Association, International. Pilots are arguing for better contracts, which they say are currently below industry standards.

On Monday, Spirit Airlines filed a federal lawsuit against the ALPA in the South District of Florida, alleging the pilots are engaging in a “pervasive illegal work slowdown” and causing “irreparable harm to [Spirit’s] goodwill with its customers.”

Since the beginning of May, approximately 300 flights have been canceled due to the disruption, according to the lawsuit. It also claims 81 flights were canceled on Sunday.

Twenty-eight more were canceled by Tuesday morning.

“This slowdown is in direct violation of the [Railway Labor Act], which prohibits work slowdowns and strikes during collective bargaining negotiations, as expressly recognized by a series of court decisions, including by this Circuit in Delta Air Lines v. Air Line Pilots Association, International,” the lawsuit states.

Spirit spokesman Paul Berry said in a statement said the airline is “shocked and saddened” by the what took place in the Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport.

“This is a result of unlawful labor activity by some Spirit pilots designed to disrupt Spirit operations for our customers, by canceling multiple flights across our network,” Berry said. “These pilots have put their quest for a new contract ahead of getting customers to their destinations and the safety of their fellow Spirit Team Members.”

Capt. Stuart Morrison, chairman of the Spirit unit of ALPA, fired back, saying that the pilots would not work for “substandard” contracts.

“Spirit pilots are not prepared to embark on the fool’s errand of accepting substandard pay and retirement based on the unenforceable hypothesis that the Company may grow more quickly,” Morrison said in a statement. “Our ‘peers’ throughout the industry have uniformly and properly rejected agreements based on that theory.”

But while the pilots and the airline went back and forth, hundreds of passengers were forced to figure out new routes after being left without a flight out of Florida.

Brionka Halbert, 18, was scheduled to fly from the Ft. Lauderdale airport to LaGuardia Airport in New York City aboard Spirit flight 710.

She said before takeoff, a flight attendant told the passengers they would have 28 minutes to board the flight or it would be canceled.

“Everyone was stressed. They asked us to take out our boarding passes and be ready,” Halbert told NBC News. “Then about 20 minutes after that, they told us the flight was canceled. They sent us to the front desk, so that we could either change our tickets or have our tickets refunded.”

She said the passengers then went to the front desk, where approximately 15 police officers were keeping watch.

“People were angry and stressed after this,” Halbert said. “Tensions ran high because of the abrupt cancellation. Then, we waited two to three hours at the front desk so that our tickets to be refunded. It got rowdy.”

About two hours after her scheduled take off, Halbert said she was inside the terminal witnessing what she described as “excessive force” from the law enforcement officers.

“The cops went about it in the wrong away even if they were trying to do the right thing,” she said.

Halbert was still in Florida as of 4:30 a.m. Tuesday morning.

As of Tuesday morning, no additional arrests had been reported. The two men and one woman who were arrested on Monday night were all charged with riot incite or encouraging a riot, disorderly conduct, resisting arrest, and trespassing after warning, a Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman confirmed to NBC News.

Dozens of other passengers were forced to sleep on the cold floor of terminal four on Monday night as they figured out how to get home on Tuesday, according to NBC Miami.

Due to the labor disputes, Spirit is currently the airline with the most cancellations worldwide.</s>(CNN) -- Screams and commotion took over Fort Lauderdale's airport Monday as travelers clashed with Spirit Airlines employees and police.

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About 300 Spirit flights have been canceled over the past seven days leaving thousands of passengers angry. The airline says its own pilots are behind the cancellations and is suing them in federal court.

Passengers across the country faced hours-long delays and flight cancellations for days. By Monday night, some travelers in Florida had enough.

The front ticket counter at the Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport turned into chaos, and Broward County deputies stepped in to try restore the peace between passengers and airline employees.

Travelers rushed off an airplane after their flight was canceled and approached the ticket counter, where dozens of passengers were already waiting in line, passengers told CNN affiliate WFOR-TV in Miami.

Video footage shows deputies struggling with travelers. Some were pulled aside from the crowd, while others were taken to the ground and placed in handcuffs.

Several people were detained but it's unclear if they will be facing any charges.

Spirit Airlines spokesman Paul Berry said the company was "shocked and saddened" to see the events that took place at the Ft. Lauderdale airport and blamed its pilots.

"These pilots have put their quest for a new contract ahead of getting customers to their destinations and the safety of their fellow Spirit Team Members," Berry said in a statement.

In a federal lawsuit, the airline says cancellations have been caused by pilot unavailability and is accusing the pilots' union -- the Airline Pilots Association, International (ALPA) -- of orchestrating an unlawful slowdown.

Spirit canceled 81 flights on Sunday alone, according to the lawsuit, comprising approximately 17% of the carrier's scheduled flights for the day. They estimate that about 20,000 customers have been affected since the cancellations began last week.

The ALPA denied carrying out a slowdown in a statement to CNN.

"Rather, ALPA and the Spirit pilots are continuing to do everything possible to help restore the company's operations, which have experienced significant problems over the past several days," a spokesperson said in a statement to CNN.

The airline says pilots are turning down "open time" flights and last minute assignments that would make them earn twice their pay. In the lawsuit, the airline claims union members have engaged in a campaign threatening and intimidating other pilots who accept last minute assignments.

The union leaders were already anticipating legal action Friday. In a message to members, leaders said the airline believed the union was behind the shortage of pilots and encouraged them to work.

"Simply put, pilots who want to pick up open time should do so and not be questioned," the message said.

These tensions don't come as a surprise.

Since 2015, the airline and the pilots union have been part of several formal and informal contract negotiations but they have not reached an agreement.

Last years, groups of pilots picketed at the Dallas airport and outside the company's headquarters in Miramar, Florida, to press the company.

The-CNN-Wire: By Nicole Chavez and Keith Allen

™ & © 2017 Cable News Network, Inc., a Time Warner Company. All rights reserved.</s>On Monday, fights broke out between airline staff and angry passengers – and led to three arrests for inciting a riot, resisting arrest, trespassing and disorderly conduct.

“All of a sudden, one particular flight got canceled, and a mob ensued up here at the front counter, in front of everyone else who had been waiting in line,” a passenger told local station WSVN. “At that point, the ticket agents couldn’t handle what was going on, so they called in for the police.”

Passengers have also reported that they witnessed police brutality.

“Just witnessed police brutality at Fort Lauderdale airport @SpiritAirlines trying to get back to NYC … i'm tired its 2017,” witness and Twitter user Brionka Halbert wrote in a tweet with a video.

Earlier in the day, Spirit Airlines had cancelled at least seven flights after filing a lawsuit against their own pilot’s union, the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), over a new bargaining agreement. The airline claimed there was “an unlawful job action by Spirit pilots” and that the pilots have been “purposely and unlawfully disrupting the airline’s operations."

“We are shocked and saddened to see the videos of what took place at Ft. Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport this evening. This is a result of unlawful labor activity by some Spirit pilots designed to disrupt Spirit operations for our customers, by canceling multiple flights across our network,” Spirit Airlines spokesman Paul Berry told International Business Times.

“These pilots have put their quest for a new contract ahead of getting customers to their destinations and the safety of their fellow Spirit Team Members. It is for this reason, Spirit has filed suit in Federal Court to protect our customers' future travel,” Berry added.

The ALPA has denied the allegations, and told CBS News that the lawsuit is "unwarranted and counterproductive legal action."</s>Spirit Airlines on Tuesday won a temporary restraining order in a lawsuit against the union representing its pilots, which the company said had coordinated a work slowdown that set off chaos at a Florida airport.

The Fort Lauderdale airport north of Miami regained its calm Tuesday afternoon, following a night of clashes between Spirit employees and frustrated passengers stranded at the terminal due to flight cancellations.

"We sincerely apologize to our customers for the disruption and inconveniences they have suffered," Spirit spokesman Paul Berry said in a statement.

"We believe this is the result of intimidation tactics by a limited number of our pilots affecting the behavior of the larger group."

The lawsuit, which was filed Monday, accused the Air Line Pilots Association of coordinating a "pervasive illegal work slowdown" in order to "pressure Spirit in its current collective bargaining negotiations."

Since last Thursday some 300 Spirit flights have been canceled -- 15 percent of the airline's offerings -- with some 20,000 impacted passengers in cities like Fort Lauderdale, Chicago, Las Vegas and Detroit.

Spirit said in the suit it has lost $8.5 million.

The federal order issued Tuesday will force the pilots to normalize operations. A hearing for a preliminary injunction is slated for May 15 in a Florida court.

The union said pilots would "fully comply with the order handed down, which is completely in line with our overriding goal: the resumption of normal operations."

"We call on the company to join forces with ALPA and the Spirit pilots to do just that."</s>There are heated situations, and then there’s the kind of chaos that has the police stepping in to break things up. Sheriff’s deputies had their hands full at Fort Lauderdale-Hollywood International Airport last night, where a slew of canceled Spirit Airlines flights had frustrated passengers ready to rumble with the airline.

Passengers streamed off a plane after their flight was canceled and joined dozens of other passengers waiting in line at the ticket counter, frustrated with the situation. Nine flights were reportedly canceled last night.

“Very angry angry angry people – everybody had places to be and couldn’t be there,” one passenger told CBS News. She was trying to get home to Detroit after a cruise, and said this was the third Spirit flight she’s had that has been canceled since Thursday.

Things turned chaotic, with video footage showing sheriff’s deputies pulling some passengers aside and handcuffing them.

“There were several people there that were upset,” a Broward Sheriff’s Office spokeswoman told ABC News. “We were called in to just make sure that things were kept from getting very unruly.”

Last night may have been the final straw for passengers: 300 flights have been canceled in the last seven days, a situation that the airline blames on the pilots union.

In a lawsuit [PDF] filed on Monday against the Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), the airline claims it and some of its members are “purposely and unlawfully disrupting the airline’s operations” in at least four major airports, including Fort Lauderdale.

“We are shocked and saddened to see the videos of what took place at Ft. Lauderdale/Hollywood International Airport this evening,” Spirit said in a statement last night. “This is a result of unlawful labor activity by some Spirit pilots designed to disrupt Spirit operations for our customers, by canceling multiple flights across our network. These pilots have put their quest for a new contract ahead of getting customers to their destinations and the safety of their fellow Spirit Team Members.”

ALPA says it isn’t to blame for any slowdowns.

“The Air Line Pilots Association, Int’l and the Spirit pilot group it represents are not engaged in a job action,” the union said in a statement. “Rather, ALPA and the Spirit pilots are continuing to do everything possible to help restore the company’s operations, which have experienced significant problems over the past several days. While we will continue these efforts, we will actively defend the association, its officers and its member pilots against the unwarranted and counterproductive legal action brought this evening by Spirit Airlines.”
At the Fort Lauderdale–Hollywood International Airport, Spirit Airlines cancels eleven flights and delays 30 due to a dispute between the airline and its pilots (as talks occur between the airline and the pilots' union, Air Line Pilots Association, International). Protests break out and three travelers are arrested.