I don't think I wanted to say that the airlines could have avoided the layoffs. The layoffs were an absolute knee-jerk reaction to revenue being dropped and people not being allowed to fly. If you have an infrastructure of 40,000 employees at Air Canada or 20,000 at WestJet and there's nobody flying, you have to cut your costs somehow. They parked hundreds of airplanes and laid off tens of thousands of people, which was a normal reaction to save their profit and loss statement.
The question now becomes this: What did they do to try to recover those positions when they decided to go back and have flights come back into play in the spring of 2022? That's where you had a situation where the airlines basically ran out of time and ran out of effort. The industry had all kinds of staff shortages, as they still have today, and they just overextended themselves in terms of putting out too much capacity, too many flight schedules, for the resources that were available either at the airlines or at the airports.