Originally Posted by Lewbronski

A couple of additional things to consider when it comes to the furlough threat.

Every one of us comes into the airline industry knowing its nature. It's a boom and bust industry. The junior have always been at risk of furlough. It completely sucks but it's the nature of the best. If job security was our number one value in a profession, we would have all gone and worked for the government or become a software engineer.

Every single person currently on the seniority list was given the chance, post-covid, with the realistic threat of furloughs in the offing, to take VSP. VSP provided those who took it with a five-year runway of cash to do one or more of a number of things: begin retirement, weather our industry's crisis, find another job, retrain into another career, get additional education and qualifications, or start/focus on a business. Those who didn't take VSP and are in the furlough bubble rolled the dice. Maybe that was the wisest thing to do. But it's worth noting that every single furloughee, if it comes to that, had the opportunity to take VSP. They weren't left out in the cold.

No concessions.