Originally Posted by
TimmyW
Wizz insisting the airport were given prior notice to them closing the base. Given the DSA Airport MD quit suddenly a week or two ago, i'm inclined to believe Wizz on this ocassion.
You would have thought DSA would have made some kind of statement, however if the blame is in their corner, there isn't much for them to say.
They told the airport three weeks ago but not their own employees and their own passengers? Or they told everyone on Saturday with a week's notice? I don't know which is worse. Then why did they cancel 3 out of 5 flights (even a WAH one) yesterday? Because of the commercial agreement with the airport or because they are in shambles? If the problem is "staff shortages within air traffic control and at airports" as they claim in their statement then how on earth closing a base will "stabilize their operations". It will have zero effect on staffing of ATC/airports anywhere. The only way they can stabilize their operations with closures is to move their own crew elsewhere to plaster the wholes caused by crew shortage. That's the thruth, any way they slice it.