This plan may be working out just perfect for Delta and Comair managment. If they furlough enough in the fall, the most junior guy on the property will be a 5 or 6 year FO. The downgrades will go so deep that the most junior CA will be over 10 years. Furloughed guys won't want to come back and will have moved on. Some of the semi senior guys will leave because they don't want to sit right seat for a near 40K pay cut. They will get what they want. Give it 3 years or so and Comair will be hiring like mad(if they are still around). The guys at the very top will be retired and it will again be a junior airline with 10 Year Captains being the senior.