Originally Posted by
Longtimer
MissChief
A question from the sidelines. Why should a senior pilot be expected to give up his / her retirement dreams and retire early with a reduced pension, so as to allow a junior to continue with their life style? A lot of the "senior pilots" had survived the Airline School of hard knocks in the past.
Because quite a few on those ‘senior’ pilots knew, many years ago, that they were going to have to retire at either 55 or 60. That age limit has been increased to 65 so they’ve had 5 more years of work than they expected when they were in their 30’s and 40’s.
A few of them, not just at BA but at VS too have nice Airforce pensions as well and are hanging on to their last few months whilst others are being made redundant.
Selfish p&i(£s.