management knows that, they are banking on FEAR to overcome the pay issue and for a vote in favor of management proposal in the TA of concessions for a lot of maybes.

matter a fact the fleet commitment and the flow commitment, in order to honor one (with a pilot shortage) they would have to violate the other commitment. So management already knows which they are going to violate, the one that costs the least, and that would be the flow will be stalled to a crippling crawl to maintain the staffing for the 170 aircraft.