Originally Posted by echelon

FUD? I'm afraid and uncertain because nobody is flying, there's nowhere to go anyway, nobody knows when leisure demand will return, let alone demand for business travel, airline managements across the spectrum have all committed to being smaller on the back side of this, airlines all over the world have laid off prodigious numbers of pilots, United just put out a bid that will displace more than a third of their seniority list, we here at Alaska don't even have a scope clause to save us from the inevitable outsourcing of our flying to cheaper third parties with fewer seats, etc. Our industry completely cratered in the span of a few weeks and nobody has ever seen anything like this and therefore nobody knows how/if/when we'll get out of it.

Of all the factors creating FUD, some guy on a message board doesn't even rate. That is, unless you are so oblivious to the situation currently unfolding that you weren't already fearful, uncertain, and doubtful. You specifically don't seem to think much of the rest of your pilot group if you think we need you to spam us with the same regurgitated conspiracy theory every time MEA or OTZ posts. Whether or not they have ulterior motives, they aren't saying anything on here that you, and every one of the rest of us on the bottom of the list, shouldn't have already seen as a possibility, and it's up to each one of us to think critically and make our own decisions not only about how to process the drivel on this forum but about everything else.

At this point it seems like you're personally offended by their presence here - but only offended enough to complain and preach to everyone else, not offended enough to actually take four whole clicks and add them to your Ignore list.