Originally Posted by Hedley

Many don’t commute. Being one year to retirement making 73 hrs reserve guarantee beats 50 hrs for the early out if they don’t anticipate flying much. With the lower line values, empty lines, and greatly reduce schedules, they could be banking on others scrambling for hours leaving the senior widebody reserve pilot very little to do. Most who took the early out did it because they wanted to leave and the terms were acceptable, not to make a personal sacrifice to potentially save a furloughed pilot.