Originally Posted by sailingfun

Its your total of mil leave. There is a exception for service in a combat zone. You would have to check on the definition of that.

There is some talk the company is going to take a hard line on this. Sadly abuse of mil leave by a few may impact everyone as sick leave did.

I know several people who need two or three more years to get the full military retirement and medical and then plan to come back to Delta. They will have been out 8 to 10 years total. I think we should let them back since they may have prevented others from being furloughed.

I do however understand the issue of a pilot who has elected to work for someone else while waiting for Delta to survive and then comes back to Delta 10 years later with a full retirement, slides right into a Captains seat and gets all his Delta retirement paid back! If I were junior that might give me some pause if I stuck out the bankruptcy and spent the last 10 years generating revenue to keep the company alive only to lose a bunch of numbers when these guys come back.