I find this funny that Skywest gets a LOA or COLA and you act somewhat defensive even though you have no need to. It's really not that big of a deal. It's actually a good thing in my eyes, because guys have the chance to do other things for a month or more.

When XJT offered COLA's for May, June, and July for 1-3 month periods, I had to come on here and explain it was just a cost cutting measure and furloughs weren't in the works. Of course people kept saying XJT was going under and going to furlough even though I tried to say we weren't and the thread got locked because it got heated of course.

We work in an industry that is very busy certain times of the year, so it requires us to be staffed properly, but it also creates an over staffing at other times. This is why these things are good and why you shouldn't have to suffer at other times from under staffing.

COLA's, LOA's, low hour lines, whatever, it's not a big deal, it's actually a good thing in my eyes. I really wished I could've gotten one at XJT but I wasn't senior enough.