Originally Posted by
iceman49
T, I remember when that happened at DL...why did flight ops management allow it to happen? (the guys coming back to fly?) Unfortunately the lump sum was allowed in the contract.
At the time Delta pilots only had to give 24 hours notice to retire. That left Delta with no idea how to staff a fleet if the whole lot of 777 Captains left at once with their lump sums. I didn't agree with the PERP program, but I understood why it was there. It's hard to replace checkairman etc when they can give only 24 hours notice to leave.