Originally Posted by
sailingfun
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.
Um no. The only thing that brought back the furloughees was an arbitrators ruling and even then we had to argue what the historic training capacity of the training center was because the company didn't want that many bodies on property.