Fedex leadership, their strategy and mid term planning has fundamentally changed, and there isn't a clear indication that the pilots as employees are a meaningful or core part of that intended future.

Every other airline, to my knowledge, at least gets some planning guidance from their management. Fedex is one big game of "I've got a secret." That was acceptable to the prior NC and by extention the MEC, as in PM's own statement, he valued as fact the statements of Managing Director or above, to the guffaws of the crowd.