Originally Posted by
Whiplash6
^ this guy gets it.
Thing is ASA will never offer that retirement incentive. At least not any time soon.
They used to openly tell us "we don't want you to stay longer than 5 years because you become too expensive."
Ever since they can't find new pilots to hire it's become "we would never buy off the senior guys because we highly value experience"
Convenient and totally bs.
A few years ago (3-4?) ASA did offer a buyout. Only one guy took it and he was getting ready to quit anyway. At the time I would have got something like $ 35-38K to leave. Hardly worth it, so most of us stayed. So they (mgt) were fishing or not serious, or both.