I think you have misunderstood me. I am certainly not advocating laying off anyone and then getting in temporary summer pilots.
You may not be advocating this - but if we have pilots sitting around in the winter, how long before the company does?
If past years are anything to go by, management spout this stuff all the time and then we all end up working our backsides off all winter.
Some of our guys were flying 90 hours a month last winter (tcx) ask them about seasonal imbalances!