Why are budget airlines constantly delayed and canceling flights, when main airlines usually takeoff as scheduled?

Question

Why are budget airlines constantly delayed and canceling flights, when main airlines usually takeoff as scheduled?

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Answer 1

Budget airlines intend to have their flights turn around and take off again ASAP.

This is all well and good until one delay happens. Now suddenly passengers miss connections and need to be rerouted, planes and pilots are out of position, there’s a plane sitting at a gate that another was planning to offload at, and everything is chaos.

The tighter your schedule, the bigger the cascade effect is. And budget airlines run very tight schedules.