I'm sure they will be "educated" with some apocalyptic scenario involving Emirates or whatever and "you better gut narrowbody flying more or else they will take all our widebody flying!" etc.

That doesn't make sense for a number of reasons though. First of all the pyramid is way, way bigger at the bottom than it is at the, pinnacle? Is that the right word? Anyway, further gutting the backbone of our jobs to preserve the apex is insane even if the threats are true, and the threats aren't true anyway. If the company could nuke us back to Kitty Hawk and get the dual subsidized ponzi scheme fake royal oil money airlines to do it all, we'd already be there. Yet even if they had that power, there is no way they would give it up for some more 76 seaters. And even if they really really really want more 76 seaters for some "one time opportunity" then in order to have any credibility at all, the company would have to offer iron clad sunsets on what would be a temporary loan of narrowbody scope.

Mind you, I still disagree with that approach, but if there really is some mutually beneficial opportunity that involves more large RJ's, as is being talked about, the company should have no problem aggressively ending all >50 seat DCI flying in a reasonable but very aggressive timeline once phase one of their plan (park 50 seaters) is complete. But they won't. All 255 current plus all future large RJ's will be permanent, and that's how you know they are lying. If we need more 76ers to accelerate the phase out of 50's, and if we were generous enough to loan them our own flying in order to facilitate that, they should have no problem rolling all that flying back into mainline (with whatever planes they want to use) at the current rate of 50 seat lease expirations. Those leases should represent the sunset of DCI in its entirety, although they could probably get away with a limited number of 50 seaters at DCI with tight additional restrictions.

But they won't be interested in that. They will want "just this one more scope sale, guys!" and "if you don't, we will nuke you and give it all to Emirates, but if you do, you will have peace in your time" but the proof will be in the lack of sunsetting for all large jets at DCI. That is how you will know they are lying.