However you should be very happy at how the early out program ended up. The 191 that left are far more valuable to your career then the projected 250 to 300. If your smart you would not even consider swapping the 191 were losing for the 300 they hoped were going.

There has been zero back filling thus far. Other than reserve pilots getting double raises, I haven't seen much value so far.

We're all hoping the next 365 AE will have backfilling and movement on the FO side. Oh well, my seniority number just jumped 34 and it looks like I'm back to sitting around all week growing a beard.

I think 80's right. Internet Brands who is the owner of this site does all that stuff. We have one guy on their staff that runs this site for them. They are the ones you would need to ask about the ads you are seeing. Us mods do this stuff for free and really have no idea what the corporate guys do.

You do know the contract was signed on 1 July and that the early retirements don't really start until 1 Oct? The ER list was only final 2 weeks ago. You should also know that the contract does not control the economy. We are not in a growth mode at the airline and are not projected to be in one for several years. The pilots who might have ended up furloughed perhaps will see more value in the program then you have after 2 whole weeks. There are more bids to come. The program by the way cost us nothing in the negotiations. It was a throw in by the company. I guess we could have said no way we don't want the ER program but then we would have to add a Forest Gump quote.

Did anyone else read about this Chinese Communist Party official and his inebriated wife assaulting a flight attendant on an Air China flight? If it weren't for the Internet and social media, nothing would have been done. Makes me glad I live in the land of the free and home of the brave.

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2012/09/02/chinese-military-official-shamed-after-attack-on-flight-attendant

You know, the same folks who predicted all the hiring in the last T&G - the Strategic Planning Committee - are the same folks that brief the MEC on the economic factors affecting the airline

Simply amazing how out of sync they were with themselves when the TA vote was at stake :eek:

I'm not complaining. I am seeing way more money. Other than that it's been nothing but backwards movement. Looking forward to moving in the other direction, that's all.

Yep- anyone who believed that got hustled.

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We were getting all sorts of S-turns into SFO even yesterday morning. That marine layer was really messing them up.[/QUOTE]

How many Marines are in a layer?:p