RevManPlan - I don't know what you're hoping to achieve with your postings?
....A negative press report in the Sunday papers perhaps?
....A nosedive in our share price come Monday morning?
....Thoroughly pi55ed off customers whose business meetings or family reunions were disrupted?
Yes - a few flights were cancelled due (allegedly) to crew shortage, but most have been for strategic weather planning - the forecast was, after all, pretty abysmal!
As far as the crewing shortage is concerned, no one has yet told anyone why officially. Crew sickness has allegedly improved to such an extent that their managers are positively beaming!
The only reason we can surmise is this harkback to Nationalised Industry days where leave is taken en-masse in February and March because you lose any untaken days on April 1st! However, I must stress that this is only rumour and conjecture and we await our learned management's official statement!