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…and the Monday morning quarterback always completes the pass.Originally Posted by But seriously
By Jul/Aug AA had no choice, but that was only because of bad staffing decisions they made earlier. They waited WAY too long to recall the furloughs (as evidenced by canceling flights all summer due to staffing). They probably shouldn’t have furloughed anyone to begin with, but that was at least a tough call. By Dec/Jan/Feb it was obvious they needed to be recalling those people. When did the first recalls start training? April?
Seriously, first of 2021 I was saying loads this summer would be 70% to 80% of 2019. That is what the industry turned out to have. I was ridiculed and told I was making foolishly high predictions, by almost all the pilots here. The majority of the pilots were predicting, on here, AA was going to declare bankruptcy.
In that environment it is easy to see AA management was trying to conserve cash, was overly conservative, and was overly slow to respond. They were making the same call the pilots on here were.