To follow up, 800 from the March seniority list was 770 in August. Although, the August list didn’t include many who left during the month. But 30 total includes a number of retirements in that time much closer to the top, so that still doesn’t make the numbers in 600-800 leaving as “plenty” in my book.

The closer you are to the top of the list makes it much harder to leave for something that isn’t one of the top half dozen or so carriers.