Is this like battlestar galactica when you keep seeing in the title scrawl "and they have a plan". Then you dig deep and you see the blueray specials of the writing room every week where they're just making stuff up, there is no plan, and only one single line drawn on the whiteboard of the allegory touchstones from the first BSG and the book (which some might capitalize the b in there) it was based off of?

Too deep a cut? Here let me say this another way. When you can't control anything for months at a time, there's an impulse for people (management) to try and control the knuckleheaded stuff. Knuckleheaded stuff like, "who in my team is really with me, and who is the other", "what scores can I settle", "how can i make it seem like I'm doing my job"? "How do keep pilot compensation under wraps when the NMB just told us 'youve got record profits, so shooting for a revenue nuetral contract while trying to hold costs down to 2-3% will not fly with us' ".

The government paid employee wages until 4 days ago. For six months you had to try to prepare for October, but it turns out, holy crap this thing is way way worse than "just two weeks" like we assumed back in March.

The revenue problem is the only problem, and its a problem managers can't fix. So youve got a great opportunity to try and control costs, maybe you even pretend this will set you up for 5-10 more years- hey lets look at fleet moderization too while prices are down... Doesnt fix the problem but it's knuckleheaded stuff that makes management look like theyre doing something for a long term vision.