It seems they do their scheduling like they do their seating... it is all Free for All

Should just text all pilots to bum-rush any plane they’re equipped to fly. Why not add the two front seats into the free for all?

You joke, but being able to swap any pilot to any plane is part of the reason their fleet is 100% 737s.

> Scheduling is quite easy when it goes normally. Scheduling becomes a more difficult task when more exceptions happen.

I think some slack/spare capacity or redundancy somewhere would make a LOT of problems less likely to happen. Running lean only works out when nothing goes wrong. I know I should not be shocked by the extent of human stupidity, but why the "business" types do not get this is bizarre to me.

And paying people more would help too.

The airline business is too competitive for labor slack. People fly spirit because it’s $5 cheaper. Any airline that incorporates slack will immediately find itself without customers. If they make it to a catastrophe it would work out, but it’s extremely unlikely that they will be on business that long.

That memo from the VP someone linked earlier seems to indicate their slack / spare capacity has already been used.