Originally Posted by A320fumes

I don't think the intent is to park all 48 300's. Think they would scrap all 500's if possible. How does that affect our intn'l feed? esp with widebodies coming. Ceding market-share is not the answer right now. 300's with winglets are at least market neutral when providing int'l feed. The company hasn't even expressed the desire to park all of the 300's. I think they have a lot more desire to use furlough as a scare tactic to get the kind of contracts that they are used too. Furlough is tough, but bearible. I got furloughed and made twice as much money as I would have working for CAL in year 1-2. During my last furlough, I made more than I make as a CAL 73 Captain now. As a pilot group, we need to let them know that if they furlough the most junior of us, They will have to pay more in the long haul, ie respectable contract. We should fight for every pilot to stay on the property. If we can't achieve that, we should cover their health insurance & travel benefits. Don't just roll over this time. If we don't eat our young, as in the past, they can return to real careers. And our ability to suck it up might actually cause some of these 64.5 year olds to leave. At their time.