Good point (and I'm right behind you on the way to plumbers' school). It totally depends on the company's math -- would they rather pay the costs of 3 or 4 training events per displaced position (depending on whether there's a panel for the newly trained CPTs/FOs to bid back to when they turn 65 in 2 yrs or less) plus the costs of moves back and forth, etc or just pay to bypass? Problem is: each of these 'pots of money' are managed by different people and it's doubtful they're talking to each other.