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Everyone says they are working too hard and it takes away from your retirement years. I really believe our work rules allow us to work as little as we want - no minimum flying to stay full time (I believe you could drop to zero if you want although I'm sure there would be something in the mail about paying insurance, etc). If you're a very senior guy and you don't need a ton more money to retire it wouldn't be too bad to fly 2-3 3 day trips (or a bunch of turnarounds if you're NB domestic) domestically. Or, the 777 Sydney trips were 4 day trips worth like 36 hours so you could work one of those a month (drop the other one if you had two). This is a good job if you don't need to get 80+ hours just to pay the bills, put the kids through school and save for retirement - why retire early?
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Hopefully all the guys that go will be in the 58-62 range..
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Everyone says they are working too hard and it takes away from your retirement years. I really believe our work rules allow us to work as little as we want - no minimum flying to stay full time (I believe you could drop to zero if you want although I'm sure there would be something in the mail about paying insurance, etc). If you're a very senior guy and you don't need a ton more money to retire it wouldn't be too bad to fly 2-3 3 day trips (or a bunch of turnarounds if you're NB domestic) domestically. Or, the 777 Sydney trips were 4 day trips worth like 36 hours so you could work one of those a month (drop the other one if you had two). This is a good job if you don't need to get 80+ hours just to pay the bills, put the kids through school and save for retirement - why retire early?
For 2014 I think the mandatory number is somewhere around 150. I estimate maybe a third to a half (max) will take it. So we're at aqbout 130 or so. In 2014-2015 and beyond, the mandatory numbers start to accelerate rapidly but the actuarials of the early out start to diminish rapidly as well. I'm guessing maybe 50 from all other years total take it, and that's probably a very high guess. So 200 max, but probably 175 or so.
Of course if I was putting money on it, I'd guess just to be safe.
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