I was against the furlough protection and wanted guaranteed flying instead. The majority spoke and now we have it along with all the other crap. With that said I have been asking all of those that say it's worthless to tell me the difference in worth and having any teeth between the furlough protection and their flow proposal and 60 airplane guarantee. If you can't trust the furlough protection then you can't trust their other offers either.

We are being threatened with a Comair scenario, they would continue to flow guys and park/transfer airplanes as they shrink the airline until they can get it small enough to close the doors. Management told the union that they are not afraid to give more airplanes to Mesa as they own a 20% stake there and that PDT is a hungry pilot group willing to help them as their airplanes are phased out. They won't shut it down over night but will likely take 4-5 heard to close the doors. It actually doesn't matter as they are inky guaranteeing 60 airplanes, so basically 700 pilots and 350 CA spots. Either way people need to understand that they will shrink us as regionals shrink. Mesa is growing today but that might not be the case in a few years we have all seen this game play out.