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Old 16th Jul 2018, 08:38
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"The enforced retirement age is scrapped and on average pilots elect to continue to work for another 3 years before retiring. When this first happens, that will put back promotion opportunities for younger pilots by about 3 years (assuming that the airline is not growing). But then those younger pilots have every opportunity to recoup that 'loss' by working 3 years longer themselves, or even longer if they wish. So overall they have not lost out in any way. Then of course, once the new way of doing things is settled in, everyone will be in much the same position as now, just 'moved on a bit'."


This part is not entirely correct. There is fairly fresh example of this from SAS few years back, when the retirement age went from 60 to 65. There was nearly a civil war inside the company, as people had already been waiting 15 years or more for their upgrade.
Furthermore it stopped new recruitment for several years, as the company did suddenly not need to employ new pilots. Loads of guys on special sponsored cadet schemes and self sponsored schemes got canned, no longer required.
There was such big issues within the company that union had to get involved, how inside "bullying" against senior crew who decided to not retire for another 5 years, keeping their top salaries and pension pay, while FO's had to wait another 5 years at least for their promotion. Including the domino effect of no new recruitment for many years.
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