I hear all kinds of extreme numbers from pilots in the industry too, and the math just isn't there. There are probably semi-accurate numbers here on the main APC site that don't even show a mass retirement coming, only the beginning of retirements when there were none.

We expected to see movement, and we are seeing movement. This is all it's going to be, movement.

Sooner or later the music will stop again, and if you don't have a chair you either have to wait until a new game is started or leave the party, because you're out.