Originally Posted by Sink r8

No, not really. With longevity-based pay, you wouldn't see senior pilots packed in senior categories. They would be more evenly distributed.

Seems to me that if the company had to furlough, the F/O's would already be set to go. The junior Captains forced back down would distribute evenly across the former F/O spots. I'm not even sure they would need to be trained at all. I haven't spoken about the senior-most Captains yet, but these would not all be on one fleet, so the company could take a slow and measured approach to displacing them. And since they wouldn't populate any particular fleet, the loss of one entire fleet wouldn't even need to be weighed by the company against large displacements either.

You're actually trying to build the perfect flexible, scaleable, shrinkeable airline.