a) You work for a good airline with good terms and conditions and sensible rosters.
b) You have kept yourself fit and healthy through lifestyle choices, diet and regular exercise, and feel more like 55 not 65.
c) You love the job and are still fully competent to perform your duties.
d) Your brain is still sharp and you still have lots of energy and a zest for life.
e) The routes you fly and the airports you fly to and from are largely stress free.
f)
You have mortgages, children at University, parents in care homes, to pay for.
g) The UK government won’t pay your state pension until you are
67/68 66.
If a pilot was working for a low cost outfit that worked its pilots to the max, with 6-on, 2-off rosters and 4 sector days, very early starts or very late finishes, and/or terrible T’s and C’s, no food, no crew welfare etc, then one would probably not want to continue.
But others like Capt Bayley, who fly long-haul to the Caribbean four times a month or whatever, life might be very good and enjoyable; So why not continue - as long as one can still do the job competently.
@BGQ; Good post
