When we see the displacement bid, it might help to remember that it's based upon the plan "for now". It'll change. Always has. The Company will adjust numbers, timing, and other variables as the marketplace evolves. They'll watch our peer airlines, and will react tactically (to grab revenue), and strategically (to grab long-term market advantage) as much as possible.
Under our PWA they have the ability to to cancel bids, displacements, and furloughs. They can "overstaff" at any level they deem necessary to be flexible. They've been known to do some stunningly stupid things, but I can't recall a time when they've left positive revenue out there.
If you have a 5-digit seniority number, keep the faith. The Good News/Bad News sine wave [[color=#222222]yx=0
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] will give you an ulcer if you let it. Reach out (from a safe distance) to those who sat on the bubble after 9/11. Hopefully, some of them can weigh-in here to share the wild ride ride of "will I or won't I?" back then. This is a slightly different species of hurt, but the emotional stability to weather it is the same.
A wily captain I flew with 33 years ago told me, "
Things are seldom as good or as bad as they first seem."