Originally Posted by
normanton
So what do you call that? Under subscribed?
Quite a language change from you normie from your “not much interest” quote of August 2nd.
If you’d been around in 2014 you would have seen they got a much lower percentage of people taking VR than what the targeted figure was, but decided that along with LWOP was enough to manage the surplus. 96% achieved is much better (and I suspect that if individual circumstances change within 3 months and pilots decide to take VR their late request may be accommodated).
Originally Posted by
Xeptu
I would call that under subscribed, I would be more confident if the number interested were 4 digits
That shows the majority of pilots are pretty rational, and can see in the long term that there is a future ahead. It’s just the intervening couple of years that have to be negotiated first. Roughly 1 out of 8 pilots took VR, I’d suspect most would have planned to leave within 5 years anyway.