Originally Posted by TA

Good grief ladies, settle down! There has been absolutely nothing official about furloughs, COLAs, or early out pkgs. There has only been tons of meaningless speculation on CALForums. The total aircraft loss over the next 18 months is 31 frames. With 10 pilots per aircraft (a generous estimate) brings the total possible furloughs to around 300 IF we actually furlough at all.

Of course there will be no flow back agreement. I can't believe you guys actually took that bait...Pickle and Matt should really know better. You know that JerseyKid is one of the biggest douchbags on this forum (which speaks volumes!)

I would imagine that COLAs and early outs will completely mitigate any furloughs anyway. Reducing our line production averages by only 5 hours would require an additional 300+ pilots, so that is also an option to take care of any possible furlough. Add to that the strong rumors of 8 more 777's and a handful of 757-300s from ATA that would have to be staffed.

Bottom line, I don't have any idea where the 450 number comes from. Lots of fear mongering coming from downtown IAH I would imagine, especially since we are in contract negotiation openers...don't believe the hype...