He's played another blinder. He's made missing crew unremarkable and basically unneeded.
Claptrap. He's allowed a hosts of Cruz Control's super cost savings to be sprayed against a clatty wall as BA has to spend a fortune chartering a fleet of aircraft in the medium term. These MF kids are not the red barons of the old BASSA brigade, they're young enthusiastic kids who were mis-sold a poorly paid job to make an off the shelf Accenture clone another million in the bank. Aside from cost cutting what is Cruz good for? His latest idea is to have two airlines in one, a loco down the back and a premium up front, insisting he's competing with Norwegian and ignoring the KLM, Swiss and Lufthansa's of the world. He'll have great short term profits till he cashes out and someone else has to come in a rescue the brand when cost cutting can go no further.
"Show me the ******* money" as Willie Walsh once said.