Considering how crammed together the seats are on most commercial airlines these days, this might have been a blessing in disguise. Give the folks returning home a chance to get some sleep before they are returned to their families.
On the other hand, it sounds more like someone did not submit the paperwork with a long enough lead time for the airlines to re-task aircraft.
Yep, could be a bidding timing issue. However ... does not the United States have airlift capacity? We can't move soldiers from El Paso???
Paperwork?
Nyaaa.. But who knows.
The IRS can’t even track its own emails.
How far we have come.
Now ya know how the incas felt at the end.,
Damn global warming