General Lee
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There will be very few retirements in the next five years. The only guys turning 65 are on the NWA side (ropes that went back to window seat), and there are only a handful. If pilots were going to retire, they would have done it before the merger. For some reason, pilots have a hard time letting go of this job.
Well, you get what I mean. There will EVENTUALLY be a pretty good chunk of retirements. Look at the birtdates on one of our first proposals, and you will see what I mean. People born in the late 40s or early 50s. Gas is lower and that will help with profits, and I think we are currently hedging for 2010. We all have the Compass flowdown if anyone needs that now. Not everything is so bad. Not everyone was happy with the SLI, which means it was about right.
Bye Bye---General Lee