Originally Posted by SoCalGuy

30W.....

All good points/insight.

I hear what your saying about many not having ANY intention of returning. All you have to do is look over at AA who has several more 100 pilots on the street than UAL has. I have flown with 4-5 'furloughed' AA guys who have no intention of going back.....let alone a few others who completely got out of the industry never to look back. As you pointed out, I'm sure that there are UAL furloughees who have that story as well.....shoot, I know of 2 CAL guys of the 147 who have rided themselves of this industry as well.

No matter how you put it (direct affect/or indirect affect), it's just SAD that an example of SCOPE (or lack there of) caused many of the furloughs to take place . Some have professed that the B737 'retirement' was a planned thing all along. If it was planned or not, I'm sure the 70+ seat RJ outsourcing lived to their name and facilitated the parking of those planes sooner rather than later.....thus, 'Guppy Killer'/mainline pilot positions.

Again, SAD......no matter if your outsider looking in, or an insider looking out.