Originally Posted by
newKnow
I've been watching the discussion over the past week, or so, and that's the thing I don't understand.
Twenty-five 747captains taking early retirement, instead of twenty-five pilots taking displacements to the A330, hurts me how?
In fact, how doesn't that help me?
First of all, I'll betcha no where near 25 guys will take it. 15 if we are LUCKY. The 25 non-74 guys will take it, but won't be displaced anyway until they are supposed to leave. So those guys get a really really really good deal. They get the package, and get to hang around until they have to retire anyway, AND.. get a really nice bonus check just for signing up. All the 747 early retirement does is protect the bottom 31 -74 guys. All this will do is postpone the inevitable, and give a really select group a great deal. IMHO, it sets a horrible precedence, and bails the company out of a bunch of training. You and I get bupkus out of this deal. Carl and his buddies get a great deal... again.