I would be OK with giving guys retiring some medical coverage but it has to have A LOT of benefits for the junior guys. The senior group that wants early outs is directly responsible for the NEGATIVE turn our profession has taken, RJs, then bigger RJs, age 65, and at the union level continually selling out junior folks to benefit themselves at the top.
I am sick and tired of caving into them even if it means we move up a few spots.
Speaking of moving up a few spots since when do you think any kind of mass retirement will spur an equal amount of hiring, IT WONT. look at the numbers so far all an early retirement will do will let delta reduce headcount and capacity inline with retiring pilots. it will let the greedy guys pick up more with green and white slips and we will see a decling pilot workforce. PLus delta is not stupid they will hire at the last possible minute before the busy summer season and not a moment too soon. know what that means, capped reserve days understaffing, no trip trades, reroutes etc.
I say you want an early retirement fine then we need a LARGE pay raise first and then a minimum pilot floor has to be established so we dont get screwed again in the process

Yeah we help so much they still are robotically trained to walk towards outsourcing like zombies. 60% of our flights being outsourced and we have to stay super cheap on a bankruptcy emergency contract with only cost of living adjustments and work rule tweaks and maybe some more scope relief? H. E. Cool J. NO!

That's what we're told happened, and that's probably what he was told to do. But I think its pretty obvious that he could have stopped in time but his inner voice told him to score anyway. Being able to say "I scored a TD in the superbowl" versus intentionally downing it at the 1 YD line and giving all the glory to some D bag soccer player in undersized padding (and sometimes with a bare foot) that's protected by 45 yard penalties for lightly touching as he gently leaps through the air like Baryshnikov clearly over came him and he said "aw screw it, I'm doing this".

Um. What?


We have no ER coverage? That can't be right. Can it? Srsly?

Tricare reserve costs almost $200 for a family. It is not free. It is available to reservists who are still serving and have carried a huge part of the load during the longest duration of continuous conflict during any other time in American history. No flame, just a fact.

Only if it had a stipulation that gave all over 60 today, and in the future as soon as they turn 60, a very limited time to punch out. Otherwise we would be subsidizing a ton of guys retiring exactly when they were planning on retiring anyway. And most guys across the industry don't have a frozen A fund capped at age 60 so once that group punched out we would have stagnation again plus be on the hook for everyone retiring prior to 65 for personal reasons at the exact date they were going to do so anyway.

First.. you are spot on about the use of the term.. "few". The numbers that would leave would be insignificant.. I have seen this movie before.. and if we were to get the second bold statement, that would invalidate the first one. Big pay increase would mean that many wouldn't leave. Catch 22. I think spending any negotiating capital on early retirements is a waste of time and resources.

Wow. Unreal. Did those vampires snipe your credit in the meantime?

Egggggggsactly!

That's an entertaining thought, the employees buy an airplane the company wants to outsource. I say we buy a E-190 or C-Series when that gets to flying. That looks btw like a great cockpit and cabin in that thing.

I like what they said on ESPN- who'd thought scoring the game winning touchdown with less than a minute to go was a mistake. :D

Of course the coach was right, there is no guarantee that they'd make the FG either. But going back to Auburn's NC win they kicked a FG as time expired. It was better for them not to have scored because it gave Oregon time to respond.

There were balls dropped for the Pats, but, that was a bad throw. If we can now throw out the idea that running the ball and defense wins championships then we need to acknowledge that just because it hit your hands doesn't mean it was catchable. That's lazy commentary by former players.

That's true New. She was heckled and didn't respond well.

Gloopy for President.