Originally Posted by
excrab
... I have no problem with moving over to allow younger pilots to get their noses “into the trough”, as someone put it earlier. ...
You have every right to do so. There is so much expansion in the airline industry overall that opportunities 'to allow younger pilots to get their noses “into the trough”, as someone put it earlier' are greater than they have been for decades. Surely a handful of 'old codgers' retiring a bit later is hardly going to be to the detriment of any significant number of those 'younger pilots'? But then life expectancy is improving so much that those 'younger pilots', when they get older and the 'old codgers' now have worked to remove the compulsory retirement age, will have much better opportunities in the future to keep their noses "in the trough" than the 'old codgers' will have now.
Icarus2001, very valid comments!