Originally Posted by
sailingfun
I have no idea what you are talking about. Do you mean the force majeure clause? That had nothing to do with the early retirement program. Anytime you pull 600 pilots off the top of the list an average of 3 years early it helps everyone.
Seriously! Here is what YOU wrote, not me:
"The quid was the company funding a early retirement program for around 600 pilots that generated lots of movement
and expediated bringing back the furloughed pilots."
What I said is that although the 600 early retirements made movement, it didn't expedite bringing back the furloughees even by a day. The furloughees were brought back once the company hit the 3 month trigger in the arbitrator's ruling and that had to do with passenger loads. So saying that it expedited the furloughees return is false.