Originally Posted by
SkyKing466
He also said in 2020 we would furlough for sure, 100%, no question about it done deal. And then he PMed a junior pilot on here saying he's gonna go laugh at him when he's a walmart greeter on furlough or something to that effect. So, yeah.
Pretty sure he just threw the Hawaiian thing out there to get you guys all spun up and it works every time.
I don't know about AS, but all the legacies would have absolutely furloughed (perhaps even SWA) if uncle sugar (US Feds) hadn't come in with $Billions$ to essentially pay companies not to furlough.
That's never happened before. After 9/11, many airlines furloughed and the feds didn't kick in jack. The Feds came up with the ATSB (Air Transportation Stabilization Board) which just had the feds guarantee loans for smaller airlines that didn't have any liquidity.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Air_Tr...lization_Board
By any metric, COVID without the free $$$$ from the Feds would have resulted in thousands of airline employees in a furloughed status.