Well said Rated De! I’d say that a “zero revenue” is a best case scenario though. These things are mindnumbingly expensive to have laying around. One airframe grounded for a few days due to a lack of pilots would cost the salary of a captain.
As for the AFAP softening the potentially devastating effect of the shortage, that’s no surprise at all. So I’m told, the AFAP almost got a dog of an agreement voted up recently, in this climate!!!