Most likely the pilot was sick and decided he was not fit to fly. Has happened to me a number of times over the last 30 years. Most of the time you never know it happened as the airline has a pool of standby pilots on call for exactly this issue. The problem is with a smaller outstation like SAV, where there is no chance to call on a local standby pilot. 99% of the time the pilots and FA(s) fly in the night before and overnight in a local hotel. If one goes down, that's it, the flight will be cancelled. They have to fly the replacement on the next scheduled flight inbound. It's unfortunate but does happen, albeit rarely.
Last edited by timfountain; Dec 24, 2018 at 5:58 pm