How does an ORD CA help when they need an FO in DFW within 2 hours? They were flying CA on CA few weeks ago when they had 0 FOs and 21 CAs.
Its not a staffing problem, its a staff allocation problem. And as of now, they have wrong amount of people in wrong places. TDY is expensive, pilots picking up OT is even more expensive. Recalling furloughed pilots is the cheapest way to fix it. Company just does not understand what their employees cost them.