How to decrease flight cancellations.............

[UGADawg]

If you have 10,000 pilots stop selling 11,000 tickets. FAA should impose fines and passengers given double their money back.

[SharonClark]

1. 10,000 pilots per 11,000 tickets?

Did you mean 11,000 FLIGHTS?

[VMA131Marine]

2. People buy airline tickets weeks to months in advance

(my own company’s policy is at least two weeks to avoid high prices). Meanwhile, they often don’t know if they are going to have a pilot shortage until hours before the flight leaves. I am just back from Toronto (great city), and my convenient 1 hour 20 minute flight with the 11am departure from YYZ to BDL was canceled at 2 in the morning the day of the flight for crew staffing issues.

[House of Roberts]

3. I thought the problem was pilots going on strike.

Can't fly planes without the pilots.

[SCantiGOP]

6. Those were all off-duty pilots picketing

They had no impact on the schedule.

[Ocelot II]

4. It's not that simple. Airlines overbook because there are always

a lot of no-shows. Sometimes people book multiple flights and then, of course, show up for only one of them. Since an unsold seat is just lost revenue, they typically book 115% in coach to make up for the no-shows. Sometimes they also have to leave some seats unsold in hot weather if they are flying to or from high altitude airports or airports with short runways, because of weight considerations, or if the weather at a destination is so bad they might have to hold or fly to an alternate, which means extra fuel and more weight. More fuel = fewer passengers.

[Initech]

5. Or they could pay their staff more.

Seriously, how much profit does a company need to make?

[Chainfire]

7. The airlines are important, the passengers are not.

Just that simple.

[bluecollar2]

8. Building high speed rail will reduce flying issues.

The problem is demand on the system.

Each flight operation requires multiple processes to go exactly as planned. In many cases a lot of those processes are dependent on circumstances they cannot control

Reducing demand on the air travel system would reduce the pressure on the processes.

I was a mechanic for over 30 years retiring just a few years ago
Believe me when I've seen it all.