You are where I heard it from, and it makes sense as a number of the NNP work rules are quite concessionary especially from a staffing perspective. It is absolutely asinine to then go negotiate/pay for an early out and *hope* to get a similar number of pilots that are 100% going to retire anyway to retire sooner and calling that a wash. The lost positions will be lost forever and the retirements that maybe would have offset them initially would have occured anyway.

Dumbest way to bargain I've ever seen. Seriously. I am stunned by that "logic".