Originally Posted by Albief15

It could also be a simple as someone boinking the help or upsetting the powers that be.

SIG notes have a lot of comments in March about 767 and 777 growth. We are suddenly fat in HKG on captains, which is something FedEx has been historically loathe to do. We are hiring 600 more pilots in the next 18 months... I think there is more growth coming.

Somebody seems to think we are gonna need to be movin' a lot more stuff. I'd focus on that...and the fact the apparent successor is in his 50s...which implies (good or bad) if he is the chosen one he may be in the job 15-20 years.