Originally Posted by TipTanks

I mean…really? I don’t have a dog in this hunt, but I’m skeptical that the management of a however many billion dollar operation would knee-jerk close a base to “teach those pilots a lesson.”

I’ve never worked at a large company able to react to events that quickly. The base closure had to have been worked on for months.

This sounds like tinfoil hat wearing pilot versus management conspiracy theory.