Actually, I feel for anyone who wanted or needed to keep flying, and was forced out of the cockpit. If the government would let them back in, more power to them. On the subject of our over 60 SOs, they are on the property, on the seniority list, and should be able to bid Captain if they can hold it, seniority and medical-wise. What a lot of the junior (I can't say old, because some of them are my age or older) people don't realize is a lot of those over 60 guys can't even hold WB captain, and many no longer have a 1st class medical. Some are not even under 65. So to screw over a whole group of people, based on a loss of your "perceived income," is patently unfair. I say "perceived," because if experience in this industry has taught me anything, it's that until you can hold it, are train for it, and are activated in it, it ain't yours. Just ask the guys who were on DC10 Cap IOE just before the first contract, and were pulled out and sent back to the Boeing. The US could get in a trade war with China, and then all of us Fedexers are screwed. Sh@t happens, and expectations get dashed. Blaming another group and screwing them over doesn't make up for it, and won't make it right.