It depends if the company want it to drag on for six months plus or if they want it all to be over in a few weeks. Last on first off is the quickest and easiest method. If you're crunching numbers on how much it will cost to re-train LAMEs then you are looking too far into it. It is and always has been about LAME scalps. Nastyswine and his Yank mate (am I the only one sick of being referred to as 'folks') were tasked with one thing: to reduce the number of LAMEs. After all the money our EBA negotiations have cost them over the last 10 years (shutting down the entire airline at one stage), you can bet they've got an open cheque book to make it happen.