Originally Posted by preflight

Today a 757 MSP-ATL left over 30 standby at the gate. This is getting to be fairly common lately.

With surging travel demand and a seniority list with about 20% or more that have never commuted standby to work, get your popcorn out and enjoy the show. I'm kinda curious what they are gonna do to them when they figure out they cannot hire enough people to support their operation because nobody wants to come here nor can they fire people who won't book an early flight and pay their own hotels because nobody will be here to fly the aircraft...

not sure if even 300% will fix that.