You're wrong, sorry. It means they are simply being offered the opportunity to go back to the line until hiring spools up again. In the grand scheme it could mean many things. I remember once hiring slowed down in 2012 the TC furloughed, even line pilots were offered LOAs and guess what - The sky was falling and everyone was losing their jobs....Everyone kept their jobs and at the end of the day everyone was fine.

We've known we were going to lose these airplanes for a long time and quite frankly we were never properly staffed for the 135's to begin with. Attrition is high as is and will only accelerate in the months to come. We'll see what happens. Although the writing is on the wall, anything could happen...It just doesn't look good right now.