Mandatory retirement age now to 65?

Snickersnwa

Snickersnwa

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CBS News just said that they’re expecting the FAA to announce tomorrow a change to the mandatory retirement age to 65 (providing that the FO is under 60). We'll see tomorrow I guess
 
ya beat me to it. Bollocks.


Time to buy the 17 (seventeen)year AA FO I know a ... 6, nay 12, nah 18, nope.... a 30 pack!!
 
Not great news for the younger generation of pilots looking to advance their careers. Now they have to wait 5 extra years for positions to open up.
 
Honestly, I hope they at least put an exception that the medical rules will be more stringent once past age 60.
 
Look up the history of the age 60 rule and see why it was put in place.

You guys have to think LONG term, how this helps the younger pilots out there. Like when we are 58.
 
Dont know, dont care.

Do know you're going to sit behind THOUSANDS of pilots now as the age was moved back. I hope to be long retired by 60.
 
SmitteyB said:
Absolutely terrible news.
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As much as we all like, or dream about flying planes for a living. Not everyone with a 25+ year career is going to want to stay till 65 if they can retired at 58 (for example) and be financially secure.

Some will stay, but others will get out due to medical or just because they want to and are able to retire at 60 or before.
 
With the 70+ year old crashing the other week, and the 58 year old having a heart attack and a PPL landing the plane - seems like odd timing.
 
Does anyone know if this will up the Major air line minimums? If they can keep pilots for an extra 5 years, I assume it will be more competitive to get a job...
 
Seggy said:
Can you expand on that a little more? Look up the history of the age 60 rule and see WHY it was put in place then come back to me.
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meritflyer said:
Dont know, dont care.

Do know you're going to sit behind THOUSANDS of pilots now as the age was moved back. I hope to be long retired by 60.
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Here's a blip of the info:

How it all started

How did the Age 60 Rule come to be? As the decade of the 50s neared an end, there was no federally-mandated retirement age yet established for commercial pilots. However, the major airlines had begun to devise and unilaterally institute pilot retirement plans that called for retirement at age 60. This was in keeping with how these companies treated other employees. The Air Line Pilots Association (ALPA), which represented the pilots of these carriers, opposed age-based retirement as a matter of policy. Eventually ALPA began to challenge company-imposed age-based retirements through the grievance process. (ALPA would later reverse its official position on this issue, and today supports a continuation of the existing Age 60 Rule.)

According to S. D. Woolsey (Commercial Aviation's "Age-60 Fraud," Danville, Calif., September, 1992), the first trio of such grievances took place during 1958-59, directed against TWA, Western and American Airlines (whose pilots at the time were represented by ALPA). Interestingly, Western and TWA management used medical and flight-safety arguments to support their positions. ALPA, though, succeeded in rebutting these points. In each case, a neutral arbitrator decided the grievance in favor of the union, and against the airline.

But possession, as an old legal adage points out, is nine-tenths of the law. American Airlines founder and CEO C. R. Smith, unhappy with the arbitrator's decision, refused to reinstate the three pilots who had brought the retirement grievance at his carrier. This issue (and a variety of others) eventually provoked ALPA to call for a strike against American. After a 21-day walkout, the pilot group claimed victory in regards to most issues. CEO Smith would not, however, allow the three
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http://www.avweb.com/news/aeromed/181875-1.html
 
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