Originally Posted by
1Bob
Let me rephrase, if an "Early Retirement" program is offered as an offset but isn't structured attractively enough to actually influence someone to take the offer, it isn't much of an offset. I don't know how that is not a concession.
Again the "biggest" [250+] was supposed to the the ER. Not so much in reality.
Also, SD said we were going to start hiring right away. Didn't happen for what, about a year?
Factually the ER was sold as the largest manning offset. Factually less the a third of those "predicted" to take the offer actually did.
I personally never considered the ER program a offset. It has no impact at all on manning and once the date of each retirement passes any gain is lost forever. I will however say that the demographics of pilots who took the program were far better then expected. 196 59 year olds is much better the 300 64 year olds.
ER programs have zero effect on required manning.