The spin this weekend was weather. Yes the weather was a trigger, but we could see a looming crisis a week ago. STAFFING!
Make no mistake - understaffing is a conscious decision by people with Wharton MBA's and optimization on the brain.
We've all seen it before and we've all heard the excuses and the thank you's.
You simply have to provide enough pilots to cover the dips like we just had and to cover the open time and the PTO that will be required to meet the expectations that the White Papers have set out.
I don't know what staffing model they are using but they need to sit a few regional guys down in a room with a chalk board and it would be fixed. It would be costly, but it would be fixed.
Realistic