Originally Posted by
bigdaddie
It's one of the LOLs in the bankruptcy era. The were referred to as PRPs (post retirement pilots). The basically came back at the bottom of the seniority list but in their seat/equip at retirement. The argument was to save training costs.
No the argument wasn't to "save training costs." It was to prevent entire categories from shutting down due to no qualified captains available and no LCAs available to train their replacements (they had all taken early retirement en masse). Necessary evil that was very limited in time and scope. See my earlier posts on this.