The idea that they would bump people out of the ER either a month or two after they convert or WHILE IN TRAINING just seems ludicrous. I don't know why some people on here aren't using common sense. I think they are expecting some widebody advancement and want to protect the ER from that motion.

If there are excess people on the -88 or other narrow bodies in the summer [which I doubt] why not just leave them there for a few months - they did that in the ER in the past. Easier to pay them to sit reserve to covert IROPS than push them through training twice where you're paying them ALV or whatever anyway.

Y'all (not 80kts) sound like the chick in Ferris Bueller about what she heard at 31 Flavors last night...