Nobody ever said they would be going away the day after it got voted down. From day one of this mess, the plan was for Dash-8s to be LEGALLY timing out en masse beginning in 2017, with a fleet of only ~22 aircraft by EOY 2017, ~14 EOY 2018, and all done by the end of 2020.

Piedmont's fleet of Dash 8's CANNOT LEGALLY FLY IN PART 121 OPERATIONS after flying 80,000 cycles, which will begin to be met in the 2017-2020 time range. What about this is so hard to understand?

At some point the fixed costs of maintaining an operation become too expensive to justify flying a small number of aircraft around. Management has said (well before this vote was even a speck on the horizon) that after 2017 they had no plans for flying the small number of planes that remained.

Everyone is entitled to their opinion of the events going on in this industry, and I am certainly just as disillusioned as the next guy, but spreading lies and fabricated stories doesn't help anyone.