We have 17 200s, but anyhow I beg to differ that our labor costs are "sky high." We are or if not, very close to being the most junior pilot groups in the DCI portfolio. If they get some early outs, the average drops even more, dropping our average labor costs. The FAs work for pennies and have constant turn over and even within the MX ranks, the workforce is incredibly junior, since Ch11 drove away HUNDREDS of senior folks in all ranks at this airline.

I don't think we'll get very many early outs, but I would guess a fair amount of TOWOPs will be taken, as have in the past. I simply don't believe we're overstaffed by 100 people. Many of the people that were hired for the 15 900s unfortunately, never made it to class. The real problem lies with the backfilling they were doing to prepare for training movements. I suspect that's why the 200 is apparently overstaffed. For 17 planes we need roughly 170 pilots and really aren't that much over that.

Again... furloughs are always possible. But good news is possible as well and none of us know the big picture, except for mgmt. I think we do need to let the dust settle and see what happens and jumping to any conclusions without proper info, is simply a waste of time and energy.