Originally Posted by NVUS

Most of it was due to vacation denial requests, so crewmembers just call in sick or fatigued and then go on vacation anyways, and flights weren't being covered as easily since CC said no to double pay this year.

Originally Posted by NVUS

I'm sure that happened a few times, too. Hell, I'll bet its happened every summer since the beginning of time. I was simply stating what the most common occurrence of a crew flight cancel was this summer. And the reason why said occurrence was perceived to be more pronounced this year.