So it was your fault?

A poor IT infrastructure made it impossible to operate the airline during a storm that was certainly rough. A week after the storm passed, the airline was still not operating as a result of the IT/scheduling meltdown.

It was estimated that Comair's failure to perform during that challenge cost over twenty million dollars...or about half what this pilot group eventually gave up in contract concessions after the subsequent bankruptcy.

I was there too...Christmas Eve, standing in line for four hours waiting for an assignment from scheduling...then getting stranded at an outstation for all of Christmas day because of Comair's unwillingness to invest in infrastructure. The crash of SBS was like seeing a shattered window on the ground while crew scheduling tried to glue tens of thousands of pieces back together.

I still believe holding management accountable for failures such as these, and expecting management to create an environment that promotes, rather than hinders, success is not unreasonable.