In the case here moving up the projected release of up to 20 some Captains by 15 days means the replacements have been trained. The "new" Captains may just be completing training, however the 20 new hires that replaced the upgrading FOs were hired back in late July / early August. The replacement Captains were either for a Nov 1 or Dec 1 bid award as well, so throw in 3 or 4 months of them at Captain pay. 20 Captains is almost 10% of the normal Compass Captain list. The last seniority list shows 100 new hires since this whole process started last July, granted 40-50 of these were probably needed to cover 117. Compass will release these pilots as soon as possible to avoid as much overlap in pay as they can. Moving up the release of 20 Captains by 15 days, just saved the company about $60k. That's decent coin for a company this small.