Originally Posted by
parabellum
Be interesting to see just how many caveats that will come with!
It'll also be interesting to see how many people stay beyond 65 if/when this increase comes about.
While I haven't seen any data, empirically, not everyone who can stay to 65 does.
If increasing the max age doesn't produce many more pilots remaining in the system, it's much ado about nothing...and solves almost nothing.
Only time will tell.
It's going to ruffle some junior feathers though.
P.S. Found this spot of data by a DL pilot who went through one month of data to see what the attrition looks like (my kinda geek !). Without
LOTS more, it really doesn't tell the whole story but it's something:
From the January seniority list to the February seniority list we lost a total of 40 pilots.
22 went to age 65
4 were over age 64 but less than 65
3 were new hires (less than a year)
11 were between age 51 and 62 (4 were SIC outs)
Basically 26 out of 37 went to age 65 last month.