Hmm, thanks again for your two cents. It sounds worth a gamble, at least for a furloughee. Netjets is another interview coming but that is guaranteed low pay and, by the sounds of this message board anyhow, 4-5 years from an upgrade (although the typing of FO's does some slow PIC time accumulation even then, according to the FAA's and SWA's definition if no-one else's.) I am going to be jobless in the next 3 weeks so I would like to get in class by early March. It is funny what you say about the HR department, because you're right about what they are saying- even at AIR Inc they used it as a recruitment tool. I may give it a shot. Since I have your ear, how is thr rumor mill on growth vs stagnation (the other million dollar question everyone faces!~) At least you guys are linked to a reasonably (no imminent Ch. 11) healthy mothership compared to most.