Originally Posted by Denny Crane

Management has to have decided that offering an early out is cheaper than furloughing. They also have to have decided that most, if not all, positions vacated at the top of the list will not be replaced. There may be training going on because of an early out but it wont be much.

One of the reasons that pilots are never offered an early out is that someone has to fly the widebody airplanes and whomever does is going to be paid the same thing since we are on a twelve year payscale. So whether they are 60 or 48, the same cost is still there. Now, if the positions just disappear, the company can see the advantage to offering an early out vs a furlough. The advantage to us at the moment is, hopefully, no displacements and in the future, if we ever start expanding again, faster upgrades. Hopefully this will happen but I'm not holding my breath.

Either way, if the company is offering this with no strings attached, I say go for it and see how many will take it!!!! What have we got to loose?

Denny