Originally Posted by
Braniff DC8
and they furlough and recall all the time.
I'm not sure that it's accurate to say that they furlough and hire "all the time". They furloughed 10 pilots and 8 FEs in two stages in the last couple of years, so I guess you could count that as 2 furloughs if you like. There has only been one furlough prior to that, sometime around 2002. That one was pretty brief. Not to be dismissive of the furloughs, those are never good, but it's not like there's a constant cycle of laying off and rehiring of flight crew as you seem to be suggesting.