Originally Posted by
RemoveB4Flight
Those numbers are not true. I have gotten calls (didn’t answer) from them to cover flights that were in danger of canceling for lack of staffing and watched them code the cancelation as weather or maintenance when it didn’t get covered.
They will stretch it in any way they can to not code it as a staffing cancelation.
They are not contractually responsible for WX CANX, so that's the preferred code. Sometimes it's even halfway true, ie a WX delayed crew times out. The fact that they had no reserves is beside the point.