They will be eventually. Age 65 hurt any forward progress in this business for another 4 years. After that the flood gates will open. Before age 65 was passed CAL, NWA, USair East, and AA all had more than 50% of their pilot groups retiring in the next 10 years. So 4 years from now that will be true again.

Very hard decision for all of you guys at comair. I know a few of my friends who are furloughed have already been hired and are struggling with the same decision. I say if you were hired at comair within the last year and have the chance to go to Mesaba go. Mesaba's payrate are not good right now but they have snap back provisions in the contract that start to raise the pay to pre bankruptcy levels next year. So by the time you are on 2nd year pay it will be much better than it is right now.

Now if you were hired a year and a half ago it much harder to leave just because of the sheer amount of hiring comair was doing last year. Your seniority is much greater than the guys who only got hired in the last few months. We were running classes of 20 a week for a while so its much harder for you guys to leave. I dont want to be in your situation but maybe its for the better. Comair could easily be gone in a few months or hiring again. Who knows?