Originally Posted by
Tropical
There is no way the VEOPS are coming back unless it's the bottom of the list. They took a buyout and voluntarily gave up their seniority rights. That's a lot different than someone who aged out at 65.
Maybe, maybe not. Have not seen the final version of the law, nor the contract the VEOPs signed. It surprised me the law had a right to return. That provision was explicitly not in the age 65 legislation. It is my understanding, based on reporting, that the legislator who inserted the current language has a brother who is a Delta pilot.
In other words, whoever inserted it has a specific end-state goal in mind that 99% of Congress wouldn't even be aware of, or care about.
Courts are getting to be more human and less objective. I've seen results, even in DL administrative law cases, that I've not believed. ... sometimes a judge just wants to help someone out and they get incongruently subjective.