Originally Posted by
Scoop
C'mon - lighten up on the young vs old. Buck makes many good points and so do you. How about we agree to disagree.
As far as the PERP program - retired Pilots returning, yeah it sucked but the alternative was worse. So when you have two bad options isn't it better to choose the least bad? DAL had mismanaged its crew resources, as always, and we were between a rock and a hard place - there was no magical "tough guy" solution that we missed.
Like I said I am skeptical on carve out and am amused that Pilots among those making 250K + within 3 years are mocking a 20 year Pilot making 175K who just lost his planned for DB. I am 100% against bringing back the DB but lets not lose the ability to see things from others POV.
And for every Captain making 175K there were 5-15 year FOs making sub 100K (yours truly
) who are rapidly approaching retirement with some already retired.
Scoop
The PRP program was a company ask in return for the Early out program to retire 600 plus pilots and get all the furloughed pilots back on the property. As pointed out many times the average PRP pilot stayed 6 weeks beyond retirement. The PRP’s who stayed longer were all check airman needed to move the training along. A few LCA’s managed to get a year past retirement. This was primarily on the 7ER fleet driven by a DH FAA 767 POI who refused to qualify more than 2 new LCA’s per month.