History repeating itself yet again. Airline managers do not own up to making mistakes, it is a sign of weakness and career suicide to do so.
Pilots are a very expensive commodity in an business and yet they have the power in their day-to-day commercial decisions to keep the company in profitable business... or wipe a fortnight's profit off a route with one ill-considered diversion. Airline managers OTOH scrape and save costs in their departments just to try and make the 0.5% productivity gain that will get them their bonus this year. Consequently those managers have a fundamental dislike & jealousy of those who unwittingly wield much more commercial clout than they do.
We have seen it so many times.... Another ambitious manager who thinks he can run the programme with less pilots per airframe. He has some bright ideas about biasing the leave away from the summer so the busiest time is covered and the pilots are forced to take their leave later & later in the year. It will reach a crisis sooner or later..... hopefully not before he gets his productivity bonus and moves on elsewhere screw some other department/company up.
How long before the RYR lawyers are all over this thread ?