What benefit could there be to begin with? Is everyone talking about costs?? You're just hiring a furloughed pilot instead of someone from the street, replacing a body from the streets with a known out of work body from holdings it's that simple. Cost at that point is the same. Now, what benefit is there for management at mesaba or pinnacle to hire another furloughed mesaba instead of not allowing the guy? Someone from the street is either going to be hired to replace the outgoing mesaba guy that went to pinnacle when Mesaba does hire again. OR the street pilot is going to be hired at Pinnacle instead of the Mesaba furloughed. Same thing applies at TSH. Either way, in the long run there's no effect on the company.

And by the way... training costs are figured into the contracts anyways. That's why management won't shed a tear when they have to furlough 100 or 500 pilots.