I have heard this same rumor as well. @Broccoli Aero is referring to recurrent and upgrade classes.

I would suspect it’s just to get people on the fence to hang on just a little while longer until a new contract negotiation begins. After all why would you leave here with anything over a year seniority just to start over at a company that might buy us when you could have retained that relative seniority? Clever, like the bonus, but it’s just to buy time is my guess.

I still think something big will happen this year but it will be more like a regional collapses or regionals end up on their legacy SL or something of the sort. Their turnover and assets sitting in the ground are stunning.