Originally Posted by
BlazingSaddles
And maybe also some staffing benefit from delaying some early retirements. How many pilots are now talking about staying 2 more years? A lot (not all) of the gains are for captains retirement pension. Maybe UPS was looking at how many guys/gals are retiring early and wanted to slow it down for a year or two.
This is probably a large part of their rational for the extension. Continue to operate at min staffing levels, kick the can down the road a few more years with band-aids to the operation. Problem is, even with the monetary incentives, we will still have the same number of pilots that are simply "one bad duty day" away from an early retirement. That hasn't changed, they are hoping the $$$ is enough to keep retirements closer to mandatory numbers. It probably will work as they hope, $$$ tends to solve a lot of problems around here.
Its still a no-brainer to vote YES on the TA extension. IPA members have nothing to lose on this one.