Spirit Airlines will cut back on flights in the coming months in a bid to avoid any weather-related disruptions as airlines struggle to meet a spike in demand, the Wall Street Journal reported here on Tuesday. The move aligns Spirit with carries like JetBlue Airways and Alaska Air Group, which have announced cuts to their summer schedule to avert flight disruptions. US airlines are enjoying the strongest travel demand in three years as people take to the skies with an easing of the COVID-19 pandemic. Passenger traffic has been averaging about 89% of the pre-pandemic levels since mid-February, according to official data. But Spirit, which has received buyout offers from JetBlue and Frontier Group Holdings, has struggled with weather-related issues and was forced to cancel more than a third of its flights on April 4.<br/>
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Mercadolibre and Brazilian airline Gol Linhas Aereas Inteligentes on Tuesday announced a 10-year logistics partnership for cargo transportation in the South American country. Under the deal, Mercadolibre will exclusively use six Gol-owned Boeing 737-800 BCF aircraft, with the option to add another six aircraft to the operations by 2025, the companies said. Operations are scheduled to start in the second half of 2022. With the deal, Gol said it expects its logistics unit GOLLOG to add 100m reais ($21.43m) in revenue in 2022 and 1b reais over a five-year period. The airline also said it will save about 25m reais in 2022 and 75m reais in 2023 thanks to the partnership, as it updates its aircraft fleet.<br/>
Thousands of passengers remain stranded abroad and vacations have been delayed for others as Sunwing Airlines continues to struggle with technical issues that began Sunday afternoon. At Toronto’s Pearson International Airport Tuesday morning, hundreds of passengers waited in long lines, many unsure whether their flights would leave by the end of the day. “I just would have liked a lot more transparency,” one woman told CTV National News. The Toronto-based airline company said a network outage with its check-in systems provider continues to ground many flights. As a result, Sunwing says it must manually check-in travellers for their flights. As of Tuesday morning, the company said 15 out of the more than 40 scheduled flights have been processed. Sunwing says the outage stems from its check-in systems provider, Airline Choice, which is “working with relevant authorities to find a solution as soon as possible,” according to a statement. Sunwing apologized to passengers "whose travel plans have been impacted" and urged them to sign up for alerts on its website at Sunwing.ca.<br/>