They might have made it if they had manned the bases they had. Instead, they closed bases and still didn't man the remaining bases. You can PR all you want, but if you don't have a crew when they call, you don't get the flight. 124 pilots and 99 clinician job ads right now. We know that float/relief/pool covers many of the vacancies, but we don't know how many vacancies are't even posted.