Polar is hiring 747 first officers. I spoke with them by telephone the other day. I presume the reason they are hiring is because of the airplanes being transferred to Polar from Atlas. Sounds like shades of the Eastern/Continental fiasco of years ago. Pit the two companies against each other and transfer equipment from one to the other. I'm not sure Polar is eager to pick up furloughed employees from Atlas and transfer the Atlas mentality to themselves....I'm not insinuating any negativity by the statement, just that Polar has a good thing going right now and they don't want to rock the boat. They're laughing all the way to the bank!