Seriously!? That's comparing apples to oranges. In the deepest month of this "crisis" there were over 8 million game consoles sold in the US alone. No one is waiting in line for cheese or bread like they were in the 30's! To compare them is ridiculous!

Furloughs need 18 months (or so) to be a profitable return - You need to street the pilots for 18 months to get the benefit of the furlough. I don't think honestly in this "crisis" there was a period where you couldn't find enough proof that the turn-around was going to take longer that that! The fact that they would've needed to furlough starting around the $140 bucks/barrel time and hadn't and here we are two years later hiring says they did a good job speculating that furloughs weren't a necessary evil.

But to say they didn't furlough was because of the Compass flow? I disagree. If they needed to cut the cost and it was dire, flow or not, they'll street the pilots and figure it out later! Besides, I don't know many that would've taken anything less than a Capt. position at Compass anyway as a furloughee.

Anyway, sorry for the tangent, getting back on the highway...