Every summer the airline typically runs like crap. Unreasonable staffing plus T-Storms tosses a wrench into the works. From what the CAL guys have been saying, it's their norm too. Add to that a bunch of disaffected 63.5 year old dudes with tons of sick bank and things are bound to get stretched thin. So IMO, yes basically. and once again we'll get the blame for there being no one to park your plane, to load your bags, drive the tug, the jetbridge etc. It's pretty idiotic but that seems to be the method at UAL.

WRT summer of love, as far as I am concerned it's already begun. Plenty of peeps standing around with clipboards and neck ties though.