I dunno. What's your point? Mine is that there will be no mass exodus of anybody. So if you selectively offer it to certain groups that have retirements and on top of that we have to pay for it... yeah, I'll be pizzed if we pay ANYTHING for this "privelege".

Scenario: The company says we want to get rid of the whales, but they do not make up the most senior guys on the list. We don't want to train them. How do we incentivize those guys to leave? Early retirement plan. OK. But they are not by and large more senior than the 777 guys. So if we offer it to the most senior guys on the list, the 777 guys might leave generating more training. We don't want that. So we'll buy you a few more 330s. How's that? You mean the ones that you really need, and that you are gonna announce in a couple of months anyway? For that, you get to offer retirement to a select bunch of guys? Why are we even having this discussion? If I were a 63 year old 777 pilot, I would be livid.

No. Bigger pays more, this is another side benefit.