So you still think they were "hiding"? As in, "Let's go some place where no one will ever think to look for us -- the plane we were scheduled to work"? As if a "broken" plane doesn't have mechanics and supervisors swarming all over it trying to fix it and find out when it will be ready to board/fly? In a big airport, that's the best place you think they could have come up with if that's what they were trying to do?

Obviously you have a low opinion of front-line airline employees, but really, pilots are smarter than that.

You seem to have been fed some bad information (or misunderstood something) that you were all to eager to grab onto.