If you have a contract it is not unreasonable to expect that if you keep to your side of the deal, the other side will honour their part.
Slim, does this include pilots contracts of employment with the company?
(for the uniniated, FR have consisently ignored contractual agreements with its pilots, a position it is reasonable to assume Slim agrees with, based on previous posts.)
As to FUE, the real reason for this is of course that the routes were loss-making (much like FR as a whole), but better to blame someone else for the problem, backed up by a supine media.