Wait a minute. JB has …what? 4700 pilots? And you are paranoid about DTZ because you think one (1) of them has found a way to exploit it that you haven’t figured out?

I don’t understand your fears or your concerns over the cost of it. Yeah, the company will have to add a few more people on reserve. They will need to do that regardless if there are going to have to be ANY improvements in the grid and after the latest Christmas WN IROPS disaster ALL airlines are probably going to have to do that anyway because of proposals coming out of DOT and Congress that will hold the airline responsible for hotels, per diem, and every other expense on ticketed passengers denied boarding for any reason that isn’t unequivocally an act of war or an act of God. But those people added will be the cheapest people, new hire FOs and the most junior CAs, so the hit from managements perspective won’t be as bad as it might have been.

From the presently employed pilot’s perspective, that’s that many more pilots JUNIOR TO YOU, which never hurts. For the new hires it’s an opportunity and for the new CAs it’s a chance to upgrade sooner.

From the JB pilots perspective, the whole buyout is a hell of a good deal IMHO. You get a bunch of new pilots in a group that in the aggregate is junior to you - that’s a win, a bunch of newer aircraft and a huge order book of aircraft that will dramatically lower your fleet age and a bunch of new bases. I’m not exactly sure why your so paranoid that someone is going to put something over on you. Did you have a real $hitty childhood or what?