It’s strange.

WH would the company care to get rid of ones at the top end? They can furlough for free.

I wonder if skyw is looking to sell the certificate or some such-and trying to make the work group which would come with it cheaper. Only explanation I can come up with.

Perhaps there is a merger in the works, and that work group isn’t coming with it. Just another rumor I’ve heard on the line, but rumors are a dime a dozen and RARELY have truth behind them.

Even so.....

Early retirements and buyouts aren’t cheap.

I know they aren’t doing this pit of the kindness of their hearts.
(We’ve seen exactly how kind their hearts are.)

If they’re eligible to retire, do they keep DL travel?

Because they aren't shutting down. People who believe XJT is shutting down are completely misinformed.

Yes, but one can see how it is reasonable to assume, when company X is spending money to shrink their employee group and company Y is spending money to recruit and grow, a certain outcome is pretty easy to deduce.

Care to inform us?

I agree. Part of being a professional is doing things right all the time even in the face of adversity, not just when it suits you. The aviation world is strewn with wreckage and dead bodies caused by pilots who were too cool to comply with procedures and checklists. I'll fly and dress the way the company wants me to until the last day.

The flight attendants didn’t get an integrated seniority list with the ERJ side, that’s why.

Supposedly the training department was instructed to create a transition course ERJ -> CRJ. That’s right, that’s not backwards. Heard recently from someone at AQP ground school.....