Guys (Girls),

Got off the phone with HT earlier today and got some of the skinny.

Originally, as noted in the advisory, the Union wanted the company to "frontload" the captain seat to avoid unnecessary training events, create orginal vacancies across all growing fleets, and allow all age 60 guys to go to any VACANCY they could hold (that would have been a bummer imo) but that is not what prompted the advisory. What prompted the advisory is the fact that at a time when we are gaining a net positive amount of airframes, not only are people going to lose status and be forced to change domiciles, but it was going to create a net loss of captains system wide. The Union thought the latter was unacceptable. Hence the advisory. Hope this sheds some light.