Originally Posted by
tsquare
I keep hearing that we are going to be having a bunch of retirements coming up, yet this solves a problem that is supposedly manifest in displacements and stagnation.. 50 guys... stagnation? big retirements? The math don't work.
I guess that the suddenness of the 747 parking creates a temporary surplus. If the Company displaces some of all of that surplus, those guys will take up some amount of room in some amount of other aircraft, e.g., 330, for some amount of time into which others would have moved up into, thus causing some temporary delay on their upgrades.
No idea how long that would have been, but I can't imagine it would have been more than a year, depending on the age of the pilots who wind up taking the early out (assuming the MEC ratifies the LOA).