And that's the truth. Even in an economic meltdown with huge concessions they will still make more than us. And even with a shrinking fleet furloughs would be unlikely or very short lived because retirements would take care of it. Yeah the list would stagnate but you wouldn't be out of a job and you'd still make more than spirit.

Anything can happen of course but the other forces at play insulate you quite well from another post 9/11 type environment. It would be much worse than what we see today but not nearly as bad as it was then IMO.