Onya - merely observing that if you sack all your engineering staff, you've got noone to fix things when they fail.
And if you've got no replacement aircraft available, you're stuffed.
I believe that on the night in question the pax had to stay at a nearby hotel.
Now that may not seem like a big deal, but I understand one of the reasons that ******'s predecessor crashed was its failure to provide reliable on-time services.