I'd be more concerned about the timing of this buyout than anything. I'll guarantee that more changes are coming that a lot of folks just aren't going to like: CR7/CR9 base in JFK, more shrinking, more reserve, displacements, mergers and an amendable CBA two years hence that I'm sure the company is already thinking about (and so should we).

About the only thing that's going to make life more unbearable for a Comair FO is a furlough but I can think of a sh*tload more things that are going to make life suck more for a 20-year Comair CA with a country club lifestyle in northern KY.

Timing is everything - just like the merger. I'll bet the urgency in the DL/NW was merger was fueled by fear of a re-regulated airline industry. So is the case with the buyout. Once the doors shut on the offer, watch as Comair's little world get turned upside down......again and again and again.