This really isn't Mesa doing anything nice. If you read the email closely it just says that this allows 150 pilots to keep there jobs during the holiday season. They have so many pilots timing out for the year. Bates wanted to make it look like they are doing something so nice. Alot of these 150 pilots are Dash F.O. If they furloughed them there Dash operation would be hurt. They will run the Displacement probably during the Last week of December. Once this happends, those pilots will be furloughed. It never said in that email that they are hiring those pilots back that lost there job. They just furloughed enough to keep the Dash running. We will see how nice they are come the first of the month.