Originally Posted by
Qotsaautopilot
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.
Even if the legacies did furlough, I'm sure furloughed pilots would make more in unemployment than we do at spirit. I drove by the local food bank the other day, stopped at the stop light, they came out and through a couple of cans of pumpkin pie filling and hamburger helper boxes in my truck.