Why would anyone compare a 2 day average to an annual average unless they had an agenda?
Because the data compare is not relevant to anything else.
What you’re missing is that fact that the change is both sudden (2 day ramp-up) and massive (> 500%).
Why would airlines schedule flights they’d have known they’d need to cancel anyway, which would be the case of the hand-waving quick-distract-people-with-bs-excuse that “air crew need to be recertified after layoffs” ?
And it wouldn’t be so sudden, either.
What you’re missing is that fact that the change is both sudden (2 day ramp-up) and massive (> 500%).
Why would airlines schedule flights they’d have known they’d need to cancel anyway, which would be the case of the hand-waving quick-distract-people-with-bs-excuse that “air crew need to be recertified after layoffs” ?
And it wouldn’t be so sudden, either.
Part of it might be word of pilots dying of clotting spread like wildfire through informal discussions among pilots; or the insurance companies cracked down until the airlines can assure them pilots won’t die mid-flight or during landing...