It now has been more than a week ago, but when American first offered early retirement I bumped into one of their pilots who was taking the offer.
He said that the original wording of the offer as it came from AA management was a copy of “what Delta is offering to their pilots”.

I don’t know what to think about it. Maybe delta management discussed it behind closed doors and somehow it got out (among the top level brass of the industry) while it was yet never offered to Delta pilots?