Considering the almost certainty of the future merger and the wildcard of the SLI, I'd expect anyone on furlough with even a marginally decent gig wouldn't shoot craps coming back at the bottom of the combined list. If I had 5 years at Jet Blue, Air Tran or something similar, I'd stick it out there.

IF we merge with the U agreement and furlough protection, it might be awhile before and movement occurs. If Horton controls the merger, I agree with the APA that 1-2000 AA pilots could ultimately get furloughed as there would be no protections at the whim of someone who has already brought in Harvey Miller to call the shots as it is and that should tell every AA pilot (flying and furloughed) EVERYTHING they need to know about how they'd be treated in an AMR controlled merger that would be set up to benefit AMR management and not pilots.