Right you are "dash 7 lover": many pilots for just a few aircraft.
While the guys on other of Swiss's fleets work like hell.
And one more thing (valid with any decent airline, I suppose): if
you can not guaranty safe operations on your (pilot-)job, you've
got the right to announce yourself "no fit to fly".
In this specific case the company did this since the individuals
have not done it-just logical.
And by the way: many other Swiss-employees have very uncerain
perspectives too and are-despite this-doing great work!
Analyzing the cause of all these things going on around Swiss
would fill a book.
Etihad is looking for Airbus-qualified crews like many of these new
companies.
Keep the blue side up, jojodel