Soooo, they din't want to offer SIL's, they didn't want to mitigate cascading training events with an early retirement, and they wanted to close 18 categories, including the pinnacle of them all.

Talk about biting off more than they can chew... Almost makes me laugh, if it wasn't so serious.

IF this is all true, the only way they can make all this happen is to partially scale back what they are closing. Either the 777 stays, or 12-14 of the remaining closures don't happen.