Tags either way are silly, and yes I know who furloughs and who doesn’t. The virus and hindsight will tell us what the best course of action would have been. For now, both sides are just guessing and voting accordingly. The no voters are no more sure of the next year than the yes voters. Unlike the CBA this isn’t a permanent deal. It has a firm termination and doesn’t become amendable and in effect until superseded. If people guess that a vaccine will be available and travel restrictions lifted in the not too distant future, voting yes is probably their best choice. If people guess that the recovery is a long way off and this TA won’t accomplish anything, voting no would be their best choice. It’s a gamble. Vote for what you think is the most likely outcome. You’ve made it pretty clear that you are against, some are for, and some still undecided.

On another note, exactly how do you see the next 12-24 months playing out if this doesn’t pass? Will the company just burn cash to keep surplus pilots around to maintain flexibility, will they furlough a few, or will they furlough the full 2,850 this year and keep rolling until we have right sized the company for that level of demand? When the industry recovers, will it recover slow enough to allow us to keep pace with recalls and vacancy bids, or will demand recover faster than we can train? How would dramatically shrinking the company facilitate a possible merger, and how would we come out if it were to happen? How will this affect contract negotiations when we eventually get back to that? The list of unknowns goes on and on.