Originally Posted by
Dorfman
The VEOP before the MOAD from our perspective and in hindsight was a mistake. If we look at it from managements side, with the information at the time, it was the right move. How better to get a bunch of senior, top pay tier, guys to retire then to displace a bunch of them. It did what they wanted it to, it cut almost 2000 top pay scale pilots and put some lower, less than 12 year pilots, in captain seats.
I still maintain it was not the VEOP after the MOAB, but the furlough games upper management insisted on continuing after 1,806 took the early out.
Had we done MOAD>VEOP> large bid to place all 2,558 back in a category around sept2020, we would likely have finished training that bid in March/April and been in a position to hire earlier this month like UAL