"Given the extreme winds yesterday flybe operations remained robust in difficult conditions. Some staff were unable to get into work on time yesterday following falling trees and blocked roads, this resulted in regrettably a few cancellations with the first wave of afternoon flights. Staff were used from standby and worked day off to minimise disruption. Lots of sick bags used yesterday shows the conditions were less than comfortable. How about a job well done guys! instead of all this negativity towards flybe and the hard working airline crews giving their best day after day. Have a nice day!"
You may well be very right in what you say. What your input does do is re-enforce my argument that airlines bring a lot of negativity upon themselves by not giving pax straight forward honest, open explanations of what the problem is. If you are just told, we haven't enough crew, what are you supposed to think? If, on the other hand, someone takes a few extra seconds to explain the background to the problem, throws a very different light on it, doesn't it?