I know someone who went from Big Freight to Legacy A to B and now CJO at C. They are convinced each move will be the right one and they'll be happy finally.

This sort of stupidity is only possible in a job market like we have now.

Yep. And when (not if) the music stops a lot of these guys are going to be kicking themselves for giving up their seniority at Legacy X in search of greener pastures (which don't exist, anyway) at Legacy Y.

You might want to look at the AME on that medical

Would you take you back? I wouldn’t.

“Oh you found a better deal, then got buyers remorse days later? Too bad.”

Though it may seem like that would be the case I have seen examples of the airline working with people through situations similar to this. They invest a lot in training a NH, so especially in today’s competitive labor market- they’re probably more inclined to keep you on then to lock the door behind you as long as- big if- you’ve kept your nose clean up to that point.

If you’re a known problem child, on the other hand, well…

My experience in corporate life is, once someone resigns or signals they're done, they are either done or first on the chop list when it happens.

What we do can be more readily reduced to numbers: If the company has invested, it's probably worth getting them on the line and filling open flight slots for as long as possible. It is really just numbers moreso than in a corporate environment where a bad apple hanging out in the copy room or at the water cooler can infect others. Let's face it, there's only a couple places someone leaving UAL can realistically go anyway...this assumes one is not a "bad apple" - those need to go.