“Give me another putative cause for a 500% increase in cancellations.”
Putatively, unusual weather, unprofitably low number of passengers, and Covid paranoia on the part of authorities come to my mind. No, I don’t know how valid or invalid any of those other suppositions are.
“Cancellations” is not as red a flag to me as “post-vaccination pilot deaths”, say. It’s seems to me more like a clue than like hard evidence.
In other words, you’re literally pulling excuses out of thin air.