Having been displaced/re-trained 5 times...I think a couple of months enjoying Spons and the BBQ Kitchen at the Holiday Inn North on Va. Ave (instead of NATCO), training for a pay cut on a new plane, with a new base and a more junior commute will motivate a 4-Eng guy to take his frozen pension and retire more than some sort of wimpy buy-out. Especially if they can stay where they are until they turn 65, making 74A pay, dropping a few trips a year to get a head start on the ice-fishing season!?

I know only the bottom 25% will be mandatorily displaced, but if the training backlog is too great for the company to swallow, just let that category stay fat until guys bid off with a (hopefully) new WB order or the senior guys hit 65. I think the 15 SEA 330 captain vacancies on the current AE are designed to attract the bottom of the 74 list to bid off the whale before they get displaced so they can be trained over a greater period of time and avoid any bubble.

There's no need to also offer a deal to the top 25% since they're all near 63 anyway.

Jmho..