harry the cod;
This is my first time ever posting on this forum as a long time lurker. I think I know who the guy was who left Delta to fly at EK was. He was a 737-800 captain who was pretty senior at the time, and when he left some of us had to scratch our heads. Yes, at the time economically it was a good decision for him, but in the long run it was terrible. I am now a 75/76 line check airman and have earned over $470k gross the last three years. My PBGC benefit is going to be $6400 per month. We all received over $350k on average for the loss of pension in the sale of 2 different notes. In addition I received 4500 shares of company stock after the merger with Northwest. So, the loss of the pension hurt pretty bad, but was lessened by the money we received post bankruptcy. My profit sharing checks the last 5 years are also over $300k.