It's not dumb. Look at it from their perspective. Spirit has a lot more cash on hand then when we walked for five days in 2010. Spirit will be just fine for at least that long. We're already the least favorite airline and our planes are full. Spirit won't suffer from bad PR. But we, the pilots, (from management's perspective) will start to break down after a few days. We'll get desperate, scared. They'll threaten to shut the place down; sell every asset (except us) and cash out. We will be grateful (in management's mind) for any deal they offer.

It may well be their plan to use our threat of a strike against us. I'm not saying it would work, but it may be their plan. Yeah, it's outside the box, but we should be prepared for outside the box tactics. Anyone who remembers Contract 9000 should understand this.

Good guys don't always win just because they're good guys. They have a much better chance if they can think like bad guys.