My question for the guys who've been around for a while: how much can an airline realistically furlough at one time? For example, if they plan on furloughing 4000 guys, I doubt they'll just axe them all on October 1st and completely wreck their narrowbody fleet for months and months.

I've been hearing numbers like 1-2k off the top to begin with, then maybe 50-100 per month. Just curious as to how this sort of thing has goes down in the past.