Originally Posted by
DALMD88FO
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.
You are confusing different programs. The PRP and PERP are not the same. The early retirement program was designed to make room on the list to bring back pilots off the street. You retire 600 guys early that makes room for 600 pilots to go back to work. The furloughed pilots in question were not covered under the arbitration you mention. The company had no obligation to bring them back. The second batch of pilots furloughed were covered under the arbitrators ruling however most of them were back at work by the time the early retirements started.