Warfighter,
It's fucked up the way they set up those servers... My best advice is to play on player match for now. Also, wether you are playing ranked or player, instead of hitting "quick match" and getting that dumbass message "The IL2 servers are not available at this time, please try again later".
Just go to "Create a session" set up a room and grab a cup of coffee, you will get some players in about 3 to 5 minutes.
SAAM