As an eternal optimist myself, I must ask you, has the company realistically given us much reason to be anything other than pessimistic? We're about to see a huge displacement bid, LAX is 200% overstaffed which is going to roil east coast seniority lists, they've given up on the west coast market in the hopes that Puerto Rico and Islip can save us, we've deferred deliveries, taken out a sizeable loan to "keep the lights on", through no fault of our own we can't get ahead of the engine issue, we have an activist investor whose own company losses will almost certainly push them to prove to their investors that they still exhibit control over their portfolio and would be smart to follow a similar path as Elliott -- after all, they are here to turn a profit on their investment. Need I continue?

Perhaps your golden handcuffs cloud your own judgement.