Living not a million mies from Blagnac I think the feeling is yesterdays's statement was primarily aimed at softening up certain people (i.e; the French element of the workforce, the syndicats and politicians) to expect compulsory redundancies, possibly more so than a warning that as this stage the company is in imminent danger of collapse.
As Bergerie and others know making people redundant in France is a somewhat non-trivial event and groundwork needs to be done beforehand.......
100% my exact first thought. Loads of this going on everywhere you look at the moment. Including by the UK Government and devolved powers yesterday. Seems like we live in a world incapable of hearing or speaking bluntly anymore. Every last thing has to be triple wrapped in B/S and "messaged" by half-truths, implications and smoke'n'mirrors.