Originally Posted by RJSAviator76

Fear porn sells these days. Personally, I'm not really into it and I don't put much stake in it. The mainstream media has literally been reduced to fear porn peddling and tabloid-like reporting, so I don't pay much attention to it. Kinda like this furlough talk and reading these wannabe airline executives rationalizing how many the company will furlough....

Zap nails it with these two sentences: "They don't have a cost problem, they have a revenue problem. Cutting to zero won't solve that." E X A C T L Y ! ! !

I see the company offering early retirements, and those who have money in Top Hat should seriously consider an early retirement. I also see company offering long-term LOA's, but I just don't see furloughs. Again, who squawked the loudest at Southwest Airlines over the staffing... Management, Scheduling or OT *****s?

If you lay off 3,000 pilots... you're looking at a 3 year recall process simply due to capacity. Would anyone be willing to take the risk going that far out? Is that even reasonable? Personally, I don't think so. Our product is a household name. If we want to keep a foothold in the market and get into new ones because someone folded or vacated it, it's our metal on it with SWAPA pilots flying it. People keep disregarding this, but this is a true gem in our contract. By comparison, look at Alaska... thanks to going to arbitration over their contract, Alaska management could theoretically furlough the entire Alaska Airlines seniority list and maintain their brand by outsourcing all the flying to SkyWest and Horizon.

Just not seeing it here... especially as the pressure to reopen the economy keeps growing.