Originally Posted by nopac6

They could furlough 5000 pilots on October 1st and not have ANY trouble still operating 100 airplanes' worth of flying. If they thought they were going to be short of narrowbody FO's after that furlough, they could displace and train several hundred of them before October 1st even gets here. All the rest of the 1000's of displacements could be done over the next year or two.