It's a bit of a hard problem isn't it? Flights and airport capacity have to be planned very far in advance and there are a limited number of slots - if you hav

It's a bit of a hard problem isn't it? Flights and airport capacity have to be planned very far in advance and there are a limited number of slots - if you have airlines taking capacity and not using it, there's a huge opportunity cost for actual travelers who have to pay more, or can't get somewhere, because a necessary flight has been pushed out by an unnecessary one? It seems to me these kind of rules have a place, but should be expanded to take slots away from airlines which operate lots of mostly empty flights, not just cancellations. Of course I do think exceptions should be made for extraordinary circumstances like a pandemic.