Spoke with an ALPA guy last night, they have a committee working on mitigating furloughs right now. Meeting with the company several times this week he said. Those on the list will be getting a call from a rep this week or next once ALPA knows more about furlough mitigation options to answer questions and get the rumor mill straight. We should also be getting some emails from ALPA in the next two weeks. Remember, these guys are line pilots volunteering, it takes them a little while to get things going/implemented. The guy I talked to said most of the guys on this furlough committee are either being downgraded, furloughed or close to furloughed and are doing everything they can to help.

Some of the things they are working on:

-Voluntary Furloughs
-Extended benefits (flight/medical for 3mos or more)
-COLAS
-Senior Buyouts
-Part time lines/voluntary reduced line values (although he seemed to indicate that this was unlikely to happen)