If they offer LOA's I won't be one of the ones accepting it. If they don't cancel my upgrade class (so short on EMB CA's there's basically no shot in ........., I think there are only around 15 or 20 reserve CA’s in the entire system and most of them will get soft lines) there are over 75 CA's JR to me that will be displaced back to FO before me. By the time they get to me it will be months after I've been on line and by then I'll be around my 1000PIC (seeing I already have some TPIC time) mark and will be fine with the bump back to FO. That just means I'll be home more.

Then when the push turns for the good I’ll be sitting in a good place. At least this is my plan, if it doesn’t happen then I’ll just stay as a decently senior FO who is in no threat of being furloughed (something list 140+ a/c would have to be parked before I'd start to sweat, but it could happen, if it did then we ALL IN TROUBLE) and I’ll continue getting my 16-18 days off all while being home every day. Hmmmmmmm, what to do?

As for the original poster, only you can decide what’s best for you but I’m optimistically pessimistic about the future. In other words I believe it won’t be anywhere near as bad as most are saying but it won’t be anywhere near as good as it has been.