I think we can all agree the Alternating Month is the “best option”. It makes it impossible to pick up another job to supplement income and I guarantee APA didn’t think of that. It was probably based around making it easier to create schedules. As far as the ZTL, I’m in a VSTLOA until DEC 1. So that would net me an extra 110 hours, however, that’s almost exactly what furlough pay would be for me (1.5 months). I’m trying to decide if it’s better to be on a ZTL and just add 5 hours of vacation every month (if it’s even allowed, I emailed APA, so who knows if I will even get a response), or be furloughed, get paid out for the vacation time, collect unemployment, and use the APA SMP. Obviously the FTO option isn’t even a consideration. Why would I stay current for basically free and how do they think a R9 would go after not flying for a full year?