Originally Posted by TED74

Starting coverage too late.

Inexperienced schedulers.

Too few qualified pilots.

Too few schedulers.

Abhorrent wait times to communicate with scheduling and tracking.

Unreliable and outdated IT.

Too ambitious a flight schedule.

Too few rotation buffers.

Too fatiguing rotations and PBS-constructed monthly schedules.

Inexperienced employees in all departments.

Massive loss of institutional wisdom in all departments.

Unreliable network yielding unreliable commutes.

Waning GAS factor of pilots who used to fix the mistakes of others.

Over-reliance on unsustainable GS/GSWC/IA flying.

Acute and chronic fatigue, resulting in a less healthy and less resilient pilot cadre.

Dwindling and worn out LCAs/SLIs.

Folks, don’t kid yourselves that ARCOS batch size is anywhere close to a root cause of our flight cancellations. There are a dozen other fixes and improvements I support before opening my off time up to incessant nuisance green slip calls.