A small number of pilots took voluntary redundancy and this saved an equal number of pilots from the Falcon fleet, according to seniority. He was lucky along with a few others.
And re court cases: it'll be worth the fight for a decent lump sum and not the joke that they are paying us now for being fired outside the line of seniority. If people saw a realistic chance to come back, they would have signed. But obviously people do not trust management anymore and in the past most court cases against Netjets resulted in favour of the ex-employees.