Maybe you aren't acquainted with the history of our profession with regard to all the "temporary" concessions that have lasted for far longer than the original plan. The OP in this thread posed a solution that goes beyond this specific crisis and gets us to a place where management can't hold the threat of furloughs over our heads to force concessions that they can then stretch out over a long period of time. I posted the simple math, an eight hour cut in hours costs more than twice this simple plan and the plan allows the union to hold the line and make sure our contracts don't get decimated.

The whole point of a union is to bargain collectively to make steady consistent gains in pay and quality of life. If we are going to have pain when the industry faces headwinds like we face now, better we share that pain between ourselves instead of allowing management to pit us against each other in order to set us back a decade of hard won gains. The eighty plus year history is very clear. Every time we face a crisis like this the company asks for help to survive. The pilots cave and "help". The company files bankruptcy anyway. Furloughs still happen. And the judge bases pay and QOL going forward off the contract after concessions. This plan allows the furloughs to take place but we support our own and the contract stays just like it was so we can gain ground over the next ten years instead of trying to get back to where we were.