Guys, just a thought, but perhaps not everyone in the Aviation world monitors PPrune? It could just happen to be that the people in the know, shock horror, aren't members on here and those that are haven't had the gossip trickle through to them yet?
It really could be less of a conspiracy that some are suspecting due to a lack of information on here and really just be that no one in the know on this particular situation happens to frequent here.