Tandemrotor
Perhaps you would be good enough to substantiate your claim
...on a pension, worth well in excess of £100,000...
with data to show us just how you arrive at such a figure?
You seem to have a considerable chip on your shoulder about those pilots who may be able to stay on beyond the age of 55, due to recent European legislation.
...Their command will be delayed until you decide you can fit no more of the trough in your snout...
...how it is you feel unable to survive on a pension, worth well in excess of £100,000....
...There seem to be those that, due to greed, or a history of infidelity, seem determined to keep their snouts in the trough...
Their reasons for staying on, should they be able to do so and should they choose to do so, are no business of yours, and the reasons you repeatedly impute to those who might do so are frankly offensive. It is depressing to read a BA pilot writing about his colleagues in such a manner.
Pilots are under no obligation to retire just so that you can progress to the position you obviously feel you are entitled to, any more than you should have to give way to others below you on the seniority list, or they to those outside the airline waiting to get in.
Most of this group, which you appear to so despise, will have waited over 20 years for any command and been re-deployed to ground duties twice during this time. They are only too well aware what it feels like to wait for decades in the RHS, and understand how current co-pilots will feel about a further wait for their commands.
However, this change was not brought about at the request of some senior pilots (which I would neither have sought nor supported) but is a consequence of European legislation. As such, if legislative change now means that all pilots may stay on past 55, why do you feel that only senior pilots should be obliged to retire at 55?
Why should they not have exactly the same rights and options to stay on past 55 as those more junior to them will have? Or perhaps you think any pilot currently in BA should feel obliged to retire at 55?
True, it will undoubtedly be a windfall benefit for those who are very senior the day the rule changes, but either the rule changes for all or it changes for none.
At what point in the future, in your view, would it become morally acceptable for a pilot to stay on past 55?
Let me see if I can guess!
Regards
Bellerophon