That’s just hand-waiving. Sure, they could have been lying to us and had some hyper-competent, complex reason that delayed us and then made up some malarkey abo

That’s just hand-waiving. Sure, they could have been lying to us and had some hyper-competent, complex reason that delayed us and then made up some malarkey about duty limits. But you don’t know either, and the explanation they presented seems vastly more likely. Also your generalizations fly directly in the face of the information emerging from this Southwest fiasco, which indicates they don’t have systems in place to even track where their crews are (just where they are scheduled to be), so the shortcomings seem to be quite real.