I wasn't a fan of it either, but that is what happens when you only have to give 24 hours to retire. When things started to hit the fan before Bankruptcy, everyone was thinking about it. Every senior Delta 777 Captain could have left within 24 hours. How do you staff a fleet if that is the case? How do you plan for contingencies when every 777 Captain could bail out? I am not pro-company per se, but that PERP program allowed retiring check airmen to stick around long enough to train other people to cover for the bailing pilots. It wasn't perfect, but it kept the fleet flying. Had those planes been parked, we would have had even worse problems. The problem was allowing 24 hour notice for retirement. How about 30 days min? Give everyone a chance to start training or issue a bid to cover.