And where do you get the basis for that conclusion? The pessimists who claim we are gone regardless don't have much basis in fact, but are playing on what the company has done to promote the fear.

Yea, bad information. And here is some 'experience'. I don't buy the premise. The pilot shortage will not save us at this point. THAT is why the company is moving on either getting us on board or eliminating us this early PRIOR to the real shortage hitting in about two years.

There has been a lot said about not basing decisions like how to vote on 'fear'. I agree, but it isn't fear that tells you that you don't have enough fuel to get where you want to go. It is ration and logic and numbers, tangible facts. And we cannot win this fight just by throwing a tantrum. We will all only end up losing a job.

We have to pick our battles, and pick the ones we can win, not the ones destined to lose. So with 'fear' we can also add 'anger', another EMOTION which is the broader subject category which has no place in making important decisions, whether flying airplanes, choosing stock market movements,...or how we should vote in the next couple weeks.