I heard they weren't looking for buyouts anymore from the flight crews? I also saw something about voluntary's not being extended to the flight crews? Someone was refering to this and saying this was proof DAL wasn't as fat as some say.
So I guess the question is what is the situation? Are the pushing for voluntary leaves or early outs...are the RSV's sitting or being used quite a bit. If the airline is actually quite fat on pilots it could be bad.

Also one other thing that came into play for the last flowbacks was the same training agreement in the ALPA contract. I have looked but can't find it now. I am almost sure I read somewhere that all flowdowns are put under the same 12 month training lock as newhires. Another words if they take the flowdown they are here for 12 months? Anybody see anything about that?

I'm also going to look but there was something in there about the flowback not accruing longivity while at Compass UNLESS they are called back and Compass needs them to stay at which time they continue to accrue...actually on both lists at that point. Of course they are always holding there seniority at DAL....I need some sleep but I'll try to look at some of these. It sounds like there are some differences in our to languages in the contracts.