Sorry guys but I am rather confused here....who is really running the show at GF??? The person who is responsible for things there in Operations had apparently left on holidays on the eve of the shut-down of the entire fleet??
"Baffled" is one word I would think might describe how that seems. There may be other ways to describe it.
Sounds like some people in comfy seats in your top brass are about to have a hard landing of their own??
And on top of that, you are about to lose one of the best people there who does his best for the pilots (the Head of Flight Ops?)?? Sounds like he is walking out of a mess that had no part of his doings. Good choice he's leaving, from what people are saying.
Good luck all.
