Op Twenty
The poster is playing a vary canny game! In recent years anyone who wished to rescind their PVR (or rejoin) pretty much got the posting of their choice (within reason!) and even command. Now, with the ball in the posters court, he can dictate the terms i.e. wait until the individual is pleading to be allowed to stay in then offer him 'that job' he couldn't get anyone else to take (or a swift 6-monther in a dusty hot place). Poster happy, individual still has a job so he is happy (ish). Very much in the same way that some companies are saying take a pay cut and you'll all have a job or get a payrise and I'll make x% of you redundant (unless you work in banking, of course, where you get rewarded for failure regardless!). And as I alluded to before, when (if) things improve in the civil aviation market, he (or at least the big cheese in Manning) can change the rules of PVR waiting times almost at will to ensure an orderly exit.