Denied open time swaps for insufficient reserve coverage. So I decided to pop a call into scheduling for the hell of it, and they said "we need __ amount of people that day but we don't have that."

My reply was "So what you're telling me, is that we're understaffed?"

And they say "nope, I'm not saying that."

So what is it? If we don't have the required reserve levels, then we must have extra pilots...?