Originally Posted by
Merle Haggard
The NC supposedly proposed a retirement incentive in response to the displacement bid. If one could be paid a good percentage of the money without working - why not?
Let's skip all the posts about ex-wives, boats, second family, no life, blah, blah, blah. It would make for a very unoriginal response.
Because pilots are cheap. If the pay rates are solid, I could totally see guys choosing to hang on a few extra years, particularly the ones with all the issues you listed above. An exodus may occur, but a mass exodus seems unlikely unless the retirement incentive is significant.