Originally Posted by
zerozero
You're greatly mistaken if you think flights departing ON TIME and pilots waiting around for ground transportation caused the company to go outsourcing.
Outsourcing is what an organization does when it's totally mismanaged its growth, has more work than it can handle and Not. Enough. Crew.
What you've provided here is what engineers call "draw the curve, THEN plot the points." In other words: B#LLS#IT.
Guess you were not around for the creation of AACS, GSS, and the Polar purchase. All being used to furlough a few hundred Atlas guys during negotiations and they were happy to take on the flying.
Another story of history repeating itself with different labels attached to them.