That is pure BS. We have heard we will be fat this Fall, but short again in the Spring and Summer next year. If they did furlough, though, we would also take some more seats out of your Comair CR9s (and other 76 seaters), and bump pilots out of Compass.
And as far as Comair goes, the pilots there are being targeted by DL most likely because of the strike. And I do feel for the junior guys there, but the senior guys all wanted more CR7s during our 9-11 furloughs, so they can all take it and enjoy it. Let's all hope for less total RJs, period. They have wrecked this industry and wages. With more than 1 billion people flying domestically starting in 2011, hopefully more mainline planes will take up the slack, and RJs will turn into beer cans. Then, all of you can interview at DL if you wanted and we started hiring, and we could weed out the dorks like CRJ567 and hobit.
Bye Bye--General Lee